Please come back while our neighborhood still resembles itself. The white brick house is waiting. Your grandma’s Brittany spaniel is gone, but sometimes I still hear her phantom bark. Remember when we gathered dead blossoms & pinecones in my parents’ backyard? Played restaurateur with only the unwanted as ingredients? How did you twist the weeds […]
Kate Kadleck
Kate Kadleck is a marriage and family therapist and lifelong nesting doll collector. She spent her girlhood in a northern suburb of Chicago and her college years in Gambier, Ohio. Kate currently resides in a midcentury modern house in Dubuque with her fiance, two dogs, four hens, and presumably a ghost or two. Her poetry can be found in The Indianapolis Review, The Garlic Press, Tenth Muse, One Hand Clapping, Prairie Margins, and Persimmons.