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MOWING LAWNS

By Michael Kozlowsky

So high

Your grass

It took me

Hours

To finish and

At your damaged door

I pinkishly sought payment.

You always came

In your tank top

But I never saw you

Not completely

You peeked

Through an unholy crack

Handed me a note

And shadowed off

Into your own

Unraveling reality.

I never really

Knew you but

I invented a

Whole story

Whole cloth

I romanticized you

Donated you history

Intrigue

Danger

A lamb chop of relevance

I couldn’t just let your life go

By the way it was

But I wonder

In whose hands

Is my life

If not my own?

It’s not like you

Have a story

For me

Do you?

Though

If you did

I’m not sure

I’d want to

Hear it.

Amy_MacKay_[assembling a stage with two rooms for dreaming]

Amy Mackay, [assembling a stage with two rooms for dreaming], 2018, oil on canvas, 72" x 96".

Michael Paul Kozlowsky is a writer living in New York. His latest novel, Scarecrow Has a Gun, was published in 2022. His children's novels, written as M.P. Kozlowsky, include Juniper Berry and The Dyerville Tales from HarperCollins, and Frost and Rose Coffin from Scholastic Press. His writing has appeared on The No Sleep Podcast, and in Passages North, Whiskey Tit, Miracle Monocle, and The Inquisitive Eater, among others.

Amy MacKay is an artist and educator based in Los Angeles. She earned her MFA from UC Irvine in 2018 and BA from Bard College in 2007. Through an intensive research based process, she makes paintings based on documentation of site-specific, performative events she stages with people in her life. Her work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in spaces such as La Beast Gallery, Baert Gallery and the Honolulu Museum. MacKay is also one of the founders of the after hours gallery in Downtown Los Angeles, and the arts initiative Group Practice.

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