by Kim Farrar Old diligence, basking on your enduring flagstone of self-reliance. You are a mound of patience. Your eyes masked by a yellow racing stripe, a touch of slick irony. You are a testament to the advantage of closing up. Where is the giant sloth with his great hooked claws? Or, the saber-toothed tiger […]
Author: Kim Farrar
Kim Farrar is the author of two chapbooks published by Finishing Line Press: The Familiar and The Brief Clear. She has recently published in Alaska Quarterly Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Salamander, and New Ohio Review. Her essays have been published in Illness & Grace, Voices of Autism, and Reflections. Her flash fiction has been published Flash Fiction Magazine. In 2020 her poem "Powerful Forces" placed third in the Gemini Poetry Contest. Her full-length manuscript, Calamities of the Natural World, was a semi-finalist in the 2021 Grayson Books Poetry Contest. She received an honorable mention in Glimmer Train's short fiction contest of 2018. She is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. She lives in Astoria, New York.