is what he calls it as he cracks half a dozen eggs in a skillet with last week’s fried potatoes, a fistful of fresh spinach, kernels off an ear of corn. But he’s craving meat again. Rummaging through his parent’s refrigerator, he sees last night’s flat iron steak, slices it diagonally, adds more salt than […]
Jackie McManus
Jackie McManus is the author of The Earthmover's Daughter (2018) and Related to Loon (Finishing Line Press, 2021). She has been published in Cathexis Northwest, Sky Island Journal, Rattle, VoiceCatcher as well as many other poetry journals. She resides in Washington with her dog, Maisy.
Because Now I Am a Grandmother
I stopped writing the poem to babysit the grandchildren because now I am a grandmother and I need to start acting like it. I’ll park my car in their driveway and later, the kids and I will pretend that car is a boulder they are racing around on their bikes with training wheels with me […]