Paul Bowers teaches writing and literature at Northern Oklahoma College. Honors include Pushcart nominations for fiction and poetry, and the Herman M. Swafford Award for Fiction. Recent publications include a book-length poetry collection, The Lone, Cautious, Animal Life (purple flag press, 2016).

“The Window Break,” “The Find,” and “Assurances” | all roads will lead you home | 5

“An Oklahoma Weather Poem that Makes No Mention of Tornadoes” and “Boiled Eggs” | all roads will lead you home | 4