The Dark Sire Issue 8 (Summer 2021) - PREVIEW | Page 20

Skewered Memory by Casey Aimer i remember the knife and — well that ’ s all not the quivering fist wrapping the blade your flooded body leaning against our kitchen wall the why your alibi the fight and neck bite the breakdown our break up the half-made egg breakfast next to the 11-piece knife set or our engagement ring underneath the futon

those are what i focused on after
Casey Aimer holds an MFA in poetry from Texas State and a bachelor ’ s in prose from Texas A & M University . For over a decade he has performed nationwide with spoken word and page poetry . He is a former non-profit writing director and the blog editor for the Porter House Review . Aimer has previously been published in Ars Medica , The Fictional Café , Toyon Literary Magazine , and more .
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