Patricia L. Hamilton is a Professor of English in Jackson, Tennessee, and is the author of The Distance to Nightfall. She won the Rash Award in Poetry in 2015 and 2017 and has received three Pushcart nominations. Her most recent work has appeared in Slant,The Ekphrastic Review, Plainsongs, The Poetry Porch, and Prime Number Magazine.
What kind of fool flings his wife to another man as if tossing a meaty shank to a drooling wolf, thinking that will cure its desire to devour the flock?
