Sandusky Plains Environmental Education Center, Elgin Local Schools

Railroad tracks near Marion Union Station

The bullet

The bullet sits on a bookshelf downstairs. It's a precarious location, prone to being knocked off and lost in clutter. But for some reason it's become the bullet's final resting place.

Gift from an uncle

An uncle gave me this as a graduation present. It's barely been used though definitely does look beat up.

It didn't fit my job as a journalist. I've used it a few times, but most of its life it's held my creative writing.

Renderings of the Dead

By Kurt Moore
The Marion Star

MARION – His canvas is granite. His gallery the cemeteries.

Parma resident Peter Viyuk immigrated from the Ukraine in 1991. His business is the dead.

Upon listening to Cohen

“Suddenly the night has grown colder, the goddess of love preparing to depart.” – Leonard Cohen, “Alexandra Leaving”

I wanted to intertwine at that moment,
 wrapping legs like vines ready and ripe,
 making love slow like the rhythm of his voice.