Melissa Studdard – The way the Boer goat
The way the Boer goat looks, grazing forbs and shrubs, horns the color of moon waning crescent—so like our faces fading beneath hospital lights. It’s true that for months we ignored the rustling in the brush, the feral breeze. We couldn’t admit what crouched inside it. Now, what settles first is not the doctor’s words […]
