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Matt Cashion’s short-story collection, Last Words of the Holy Ghost, won the Katherine Anne Porter Prize. Born in the North Carolina mountains and raised in coastal Georgia, he teaches creative writing at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse.
I want to be a good man, a good son, but that’s hard to pull off when it’s 100 degrees and feels like 115 because of the 90 percent humidity—current conditions in southeast Georgia. I’ve come home to visit my eighty-two-year-old mother and assuage some of my guilt for not being here fifty weeks out of the year.
January 2025When my mother’s third husband took me / thirty years ago to see his daughter / from his first marriage / smash the cymbals / with the high-school marching band, / he told me to be nice afterward because / she was “slow”
January 2007He says, “I know your tricks, old woman. / You’re trying to starve me.” / Because he has forgotten, again, / that he has eaten.
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