For your immediate enjoyment, Timothy Gager has recorded "Moving Boxes" on BAM BAM SLAM. You can watch him read it now, for free!.
these boxes
become more
than strong white cardboard,
now loaded with books
and beauty products,
document the recent failure
of our once great relationship—
like my plants,
now recently withered
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"moving boxes" is roughly 102 words.
Timothy Gager is the author of "Short Street" and "Twenty-Six Pack", collections of short fiction, and two books of poetry, "The Same Corner of the Bar" and "We Needed A Night Out". He hosts the Dire Literary Series in Cambridge, Massachusetts every month and is the co-founder of Somerville News Writers Festival, where he has shared the stage with Pulitzer Prize winners Franz Wright and Robert Olen Butler.
This may come as a surprise, but probably only insofar that you didn't realize we hadn't written this yet. The cry of "we're alive!" has been made a few times, but it's time to say we're not.
While I found the cover off-putting for a handful of reasons, once inside I was caught in the flow of the narrative. Roberts realizes her players well, showing multiple sides to mythic characters, and the details she puts into this historical re-imagining of "The Epic of Gilgamesh" really bring the story to life.