Mule Skinner / Kelly Andrews

  dancing girl press, 2014$7.00 Kelly Andrews's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in PANK, Uppagus, Thirteen Myna Birds, Weave Magazine, Pear Noir, and Philadelphia Stories. She coedits the online journal Pretty Owl Poetry and has a hand in creating B.E. Quarterly, a sometimes-quarterly zine. She’s currently pursuing her MFA in creative writing at The University of Pittsburgh as a part-time student and works full-time as an assistant managing editor at an economic journal. She spends her spare time doting on her two adorable cats, Lornadee and Baby Goose.(4)The slap of the screen dooragainst wood wakes you and you can see her high buncrest the hill beforethe white of her dresscomes into view.She is dragging somethingin the grass behind her.She doesn’t speak,but grabs your left handand you see it is the machetefrom the wall in the library,a remnant from your grandfather’shouse that no one else wanted.She has taken a chunk of your thumb before you can blink and is