Anders Carlson-Wee is the author of The Low Passions (Norton, 2019), a New York Public Library Book Group Selection. His work appears in the Paris Review, BuzzFeed, Ploughshares, the Sun, Oxford American, and many other publications. He is a recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and winner of the 2017 Poetry International Prize.
No car to drive to the dump and too embarrassed to borrow one, you scrape the black mold off the underside as best you can, muscle it onto your shoulder. Spores multiplied to the size
After pulling a score from the dumpster behind Krogers I stroll through sliding doors with egg-caked hands. The greeter greets me as I pass. I scan the aisles like a surgeon studying the mint
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