Christopher McCormick
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Christopher McCormick currently attending the MFA In Creative Writing program at Bowling Green State University where he works as an associate editor for the Mid-American Review and teaches creative writing and English. His work has appeared or is upcoming in Anti-Heroin Chic, The Shore, Progenitor and Thin Air Magazine among others.
Duplex With an Orchard in it
This is how thunder made us:
lamb-soft and a little afraid.
We were lamb-soft and afraid
when God showed us where to dig.
God was a hole to dig around in.
Heaven’s tongue loosened.
No, the floor of heaven loosened.
Rain like miles and miles of song.
It rained for miles. This song
shook the nests like a winged heart.
Shake the nests, winged heart,
bruised apple, burnt orchard.
In an orchard of bruised apples,
thunder made a miracle of us.
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