Great Lake

Great Lake

Chambered stones rest in

My palm by the ring I’ve worn 

For thirteen years. Please

Don’t let this be the middle!

Let us age into fossils.

Shelley K. Davenport

Shelley K. Davenport lives and writes in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has had flash fiction pieces published by Everyday Fiction and the Eastern Iowa Review, as well as a short story in the upcoming COLD HARD TYPE anthology, “Escapements."

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