The Dirty Napkin

Poetry • Fiction • Letters

Submissions for Volume 4.1, Winter 2011 (21 December 2010) will be accepted until 15 November 2010

About the Author

Neil Newton's poetry has appeared in journals, including Main Street Rag, Wisconsin Review, Literary Spirits, Plath Profiles and a forthcoming piece in the Orange Room Review. He received his undergraduate degree in English Education from Indiana University, and has an MFA in Creative Writing. He was the 2005 recipient of the Lily Teacher Creativity Fellowship for teaching and writing poetry in Paris. He teaches high school and college composition in Dayton, Ohio.

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Archeology

Neil Newton

So I'm tearing down the plastic slide,
unhooking the tire swing, scooping out the sandbox,
digging up the wood posts, and thinking
that if I could just dig deep enough,
then I could breadcrumb trace a way, [ . . . ]

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