Reed Richards

REED RICHARDS {[email protected]} lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where he is the organist in the Cumberland Branch, pianist for the Primary, and a dedicated home teacher. He attended BYU and Vanderbilt. His poems and stories have appeared in Dialogue and Nashville Scene. He is moving to Murray, Utah, in August and will miss his branch.

Articles

Mr. Lind

Ziner didn’t make Mr. Lind sick, so he’s under no obligation to make him feel better. Whatever small thing he chooses to do is purely out of kindness. Mr. Lind wastes in his tender flesh while Ziner struts in front of his bed to show that the one who can still walk is the one who is not a fool.

Hand

Cup of secrets at the mouth,
gate of astonishment, flag of denial,
register of deeds, cradle of arithmetic,
ledger of greetings and good-byes,

Lithium Shuffle

Down the streettrusties from the state hospitalfollowing the horizon of their noon shadows,their feet scooping up the sidewalk,the fastest as slow as the slowest.The sun is on them and pitiless.If we, shaded neighborson the other…

A Perfect World

The Man with One Foot Outside of Hell

the god of small things

What It Means

I was looking at the morning through the window in the front room like a bear in a cage remembering somewhere there are meadows, and I noticed how much water was running down the gutter…