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(The Astronaut Sons, Strangled by their Fathers in Preparation) i. The Ausable River, 2010 There have been times lately when I’ve imagined drowning, and where it would happen best, all the places the old men in my life tried to teach me to swim. But it never worked, never took, and instead all I could [...]

By Bart Comegys There is a background hum to this Kodak moment, the push-pull we all feel at the gate of a Maryland cemetery. Close on a coffee mug—     World’s Best Dad,     it might have read— we interred in a low stone wall to fade out with the seasons. Wide on [...]

By Bart Comegys Charlie tried explaining, but the infant weight on his shoulders and the tiny sneakers beating rhythmically against his chest mixed things up. The gravel and crushed asphalt crunched under his feet as he walked, and he held the kid’s knees to keep him steady up top. “So she said I take things [...]