The stray mutt relieving himself
on the abandoned Christmas tree
would need to be three-legged
and the tree would need to be burned
or at least bent at a si...
Dan Leach has published work in The New Orleans Review, Copper Nickel, and The Sun. He has two collections of short fiction: Floods and Fires (University of North Georgia, 2017) and Dead Mediums (Trident Press, 2022). He is the 2023 recipient of Texas Review Press’s Southern Poetry Breakthrough Award, and his collection Stray Latitudes will be released in 2024.