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Michael Schmeltzer

Michael Schmeltzer earned an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. He helps manage A River & Sound Review and is a two-time nominee of the Pushcart Prize. His work appears or is forthcoming in New York Quarterly, Los Angeles Review, Water~Stone Review, Main Street Rag, Crab Creek Review, and Fourteen Hills, among others. He lives in Seattle with his family.

Alterations

30 July 2010
Vol. 10, No. 2
poetry

Before leaving the shop,

my mother waves

the tailor back, asks

for the remaining fabric

after the alterations.

The Owners, the Animals

27 July 2010
Vol. 10, No. 2
poetry

As if weeds, as if gardener.

And the chimp's owner swore

to the reporter she'd do it again,

raise the creature as offspring until

the mauling, the demolished

face, the frenzy, the bullets

piercing the animal flesh,

again.