Tom Barlow

Tom Barlow is an Ohio writer of poetry, short stories and novels. His work has appeared in journals including Ekphrastic Review, Voicemail Poetry, The North Dakota Quarterly, The New York Quarterly, The Modern Poetry Quarterly, and many more. See more at tombarlowauthor.com. Tom recommends the Imagination Library.

Mayhem

Shake your father's pistol with its bump stock,
shake your old lady's purse at three a.m.,
shake a voodoo doll over your unwanted
daughter's crib. Shake your slurs and shake

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