Colin Dodds grew up in Massachusetts and now lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife. Dodds’ poetry and fiction can be found here as well as in a number of periodicals, including Explosion-Proof, Folio, Lungfull and The Main Street Rag. His new app, Forget This Good Thing I Just Said is a new experience based on a collection of aphorisms.
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By the airport, past fields vast and unwanted, /
lost on roads more sky than macadam, /
we surrendered at the rental car return. …
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