poem Archives - Two Hawks Quarterly A Digital Literary Journal Sun, 24 Dec 2017 07:27:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://twohawksquarterly.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-thq-site-icon3-32x32.gif poem Archives - Two Hawks Quarterly 32 32 Remnants by Greg Nicholl https://twohawksquarterly.com/2015/06/09/remnants-greg-nicholl/ Wed, 10 Jun 2015 03:44:29 +0000 http://twohawksquarterly.com/?p=9095 In the fields, a girl stumbles on the remains of an antelope. She was hoping for gnomes or gold, not a skull nestled between a rock and a clump of paintbrush as if deliberately composed by some amateur painter. The flesh long since plucked clean by scavengers who, once full, disbanded to stash each bone ... Read more

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]]> Evaporation by Greg Nicholl https://twohawksquarterly.com/2015/06/09/evaporation-greg-nicholl/ Wed, 10 Jun 2015 03:44:03 +0000 http://twohawksquarterly.com/?p=8970 They submit, let the current take them, their bodies a tangle of elbows and knees that smack against the portable pool. In the desert, every ounce of water is coveted. Kids slosh in every direction, oblivious why soil beyond the plush green lawn cracks. On the Pacific, miles of beaches shift, claim entire towns, playgrounds ... Read more

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]]> Enter Helena by Joseph Mills https://twohawksquarterly.com/2015/06/09/enter-helena-joseph-mills/ Wed, 10 Jun 2015 03:31:23 +0000 http://twohawksquarterly.com/?p=9017 She thought the role rubbish but she had agreed to it because he swore there’d be a good part in his next play: It Is What It Is something more than the usual witch, wench, lady in waiting, something, he had hinted, with weapons and the chance to use them. She wasn’t naïve. She knew ... Read more

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]]> A Light Drizzle by Daniel Pecchenino https://twohawksquarterly.com/2015/06/09/light-drizzle-daniel-pecchenino/ Wed, 10 Jun 2015 03:07:18 +0000 http://twohawksquarterly.com/?p=8967 Rain in Los Angeles makes you think about all the lives you don’t lead, the times you didn’t move somewhere with four seasons, of girls who wanted you to follow them back to northern ancestral homes or jobs in fashion, of your parents wishing you lived around the corner for Sunday games and the inevitable ... Read more

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]]> My Cousin Who Loves the Lord by Kristin Collier https://twohawksquarterly.com/2015/06/09/cousin-loves-lord-kristin-collier/ Wed, 10 Jun 2015 02:55:10 +0000 http://twohawksquarterly.com/?p=8973 Calls on a highway home from her evening shift, where she sells clothes rich in silk and cashmere. Last year, I had a miscarriage. Her voice is thick with Kentucky, faith in her husband, her firstborn, and miracles. It turned to cancer. Her body loved the tumor, she says. Loved it so much her belly ... Read more

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