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...Katie Fallon © 2013 Katie Fallon 2013 Katie Fallon Solitaire I stepped through the mesh door and entered the turkey vulture’s enclosure, settling down on the ground near the threshold between the outdoor and indoor portions of the long, narrow flight pen. I leaned my back...

... and made it this far, then over time coyote and vulture, those feelings . . . A house without a heart or eyes an unanimated house. And all the winterkills retreating snow reveals early houses were made of bone...

.... What will be left when a new season comes isn’t for me to know. I am the one on a plane, a strange voice telling me to put my mask on first. I am not land -locked, but has a body ever been free of the sky? In my yard, vultures fighting over the flesh...

...Beth Gilstrap © 2013 Beth Gilstrap 2013 Beth Gilstrap Yard Show It ain’t garbage if you turn it into something. Something slow dipped and pulled apart. Put back together again upside down. Round side out. Glib. Free. A vulture made of wire hangers. Fabric ripped, draped...

... appearance belied her monumental stature. She was a little shorter than me, about five foot, with a vulture neck and hunched shoulders. Her sweater was brown, her peeling leather loafers were brown, and she sported a lop-sided, self-administered bowl cut of thin gray hairs. Behold, the almighty hag who held...

... of organ donation and calls us the Vulture Squad. When I first met her, she gathered herself up and said, I m going into the earth the way the Lord brought me in. Intact. I said nothing. What I wanted to say was, Unless you re cremated, your inter- nal organs will be removed by the mortician and placed...