dragon – MAGAZINE

For My Daughter by Tina Lear

Posted on Aug 25, 2014Nov 3, 2014 by Germ Magazine guest author

I missed out on feeling your handprints, sticky with doughnut frosting, on my face, on the face of my days. I missed out on being your personal dragon slayer, the guard at your childhood door, the one who saw, and did something. Sometimes I go back, and I’m at the kitchen window, and you come […]

Things You Didn’t Realize by Kathryn Merwin

Posted on Aug 22, 2014Dec 3, 2015 by Germ Magazine guest author

I. There was no one to kiss your mouthful of yeses, so you drank too much rum and slept in the tub. II. There was something familiar in the whites of his eyes. You thought about taking him home, folding him into your sheets, but where would you run in the morning? You […]