This is the last episode in, what should we call it? Volume One? Series One? I’m not quite sure. What I do know is that

Poem: “Flies”
Sometimes I retire pieces that I don’t want to fuss with anymore. This poem received a couple of rejections last year and upon re-reading it, I decided not to revise. It’s not a matter of it being good enough, but more a matter of accurately representing what I tried to say at a particular time.