FAITH SHEARIN has had jobs teaching high-school English, interviewing elk hunters, and reading tea leaves. She is the author of a book of poems titled The Owl Question (Utah State University Press), and her second book, The Empty House, is forthcoming from Word Press. She and her family divide their time between Baltimore, Maryland, and Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

What The Dead Don't Need

by Faith Shearin, March 2008 (Issue 387)