read the name Eugene William as among a list, a very long list, reported only in the Defender, disavowed by the Police Department, a human list that began to be collective unconsciously compiled many scores ago & everyday includes additions, though most victims remain nameless focus on a single grain of sand on 29th Street Beach, see all the sand, the dunes & elaborate castles & human footprints, imported & dumped onto shoreline carved out of bog & swamp perceive stones detonating fresh water, the moment of impact against a human body, the stones’ trajectory through Red Summer air & the hands from which stones are thrown, stoning as Biblical, the ripples spreading out across the entire Lake & the entire Nation
Timothy Cook graduated from Loyola University with a BA in philosophy and from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. His work has appeared in Rogue Agent, [PANK], Health and Healing Folio, pioneertown, and San Pedro River Review, and he received a grant from the Mookie Jam Foundation.