John Constantine Tobin

John Constantine Tobin holds a PhD from University of Southern Mississippi and MFA from University of Baltimore. His nonfiction and poetry focus on queer death, prayer, and praise in ecological and domestic spaces. Tobin teaches writing at University of Maryland; his work has been published in Quarter After Eight, Beyond Queer Words, Alluvium of Literary Shanghai, and elsewhere.

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A Fifth Rabbit

John Constantine Tobin  | 
Issue 74.1-2 Spring 2025

I cast off the expectations of my family: a wife, a seat at the head of the table, three green Maryland children stuffed with sour cherries below the gnarled locust.