Dan Gutstein

Dan Gutstein is the author of non/fiction (stories, Edge Books, 2010) and Bloodcoal & Honey (poems, Washington Publishing House, 2011). His writing has appeared widely, including Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, American Scholar, The Iowa Review and Best American Poetry. He works in Baltimore, lives in Washington and rides the MARC train, endlessly, in between the two burghs.

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Beyond Apices on the Stepladder of an Hour

Dan Gutstein  | 
Issue 62.2 Spring 2013

Mirabelle had painted her right-side cheekbone the same broken capillary hue, backhand bruise to the left, suborbital and slackening. She plunged the chain to the light bulb swaying above the mirror, a sixty watt slumber, and wrinkled the afternoon in …