Bradley Heden

  • Cornflowers Scene 1

    “You can say whatever you want to about love. Death is always going to be the end of it anyway.” Norma Stucker, August, 1962, Hanover, Iowa.

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  • Cornflowers Scene 2

    Once they had finished lashing the large cans of oil-based paint to the racks in the flatbed with a roll of worn clothesline Eldridge dusted the rust and dried flecks of paint from his hands an…

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  • Cornflowers Scene 3

    _Say whatever you want to about love. Death will be the end of it all anyway. The poets and the writers and the painters all got it wrong. When we are dead that’s just it. That’s not to say…

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  • Cornflowers Scene 5

    Norma and her mother Jean were sitting at the kitchen table snapping the ends from green beans and dropping them into a colander when Taylor Logan’s white Bel Air turned from the dirt road and …

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  • Cornflowers Final Scene

    Through the open window above the kitchen sink, Ed Stucker looked out on the backyard. He could see the old DeGruen steam tractor leaning aslant on one wheel beneath the spreading willow tree. …

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  • Cat With Fish

    Your fish and the one needed
    By you to prove to you all that life
    Had taught you to be true about
    The baseness of men your fish

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  • An Underpainting That Might Have Once Been Elise

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  • The Waking of Insects

    The Waking of Insects

    Marshall stepped outside into the damp morning cold, and as the screen slapped back loudly against the wooden doorframe, a flock of purple herons lifted from the pond…

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