Michelle Castleberry

Michelle Castleberry‘s writing has appeared in publications including Still: the Journal, The Common, EcoTheo Review, The Anthology of Southern Poetry: Vol. V – Georgia, Freezeray, Flycatcher, and Philadelphia Stories. She completed her MFA at Sewanee School of Letters in '24. She reads prose for Waxing and Waning mag, and poetry for April Gloaming press. She is looking for her mountain cottage.

Back Home: What Ails Them

Gout when there is too much meat, “sugar” when there is too little. (Irish potatoes, white rice, corn bread, light bread, chalky lima beans.) Karo syrup blood. Being “odd.” Arthritis. (Mama calls him “Arthur” because she’s known him so long.) “Sorriness.” Back pain: lower, middle, and upper. Advil like M&M’s, then codeine, Lortab, Oxycodone, Oxycontin. (“Mama, what does that doctor… Read more →