POETRY + PROSE After a photograph by Terry Evans Dennis Etzel Jr Taxidermist’s artworks, corsages, lie in a hatbox. Horrible beauty of talons and shiny thorn beaks. Loosened petal-fronds release hues of night. Stiff quills disassemble and collapse into absence as an underground seam of darkness rises. Denise LowPoet Laureate of Kansas About Author / Dennis Etzel Jr You Might Also Like The Very Edge Start typing and press Enter to search