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Claire Hero
“[Crackbone carries the lamb]”
from afterpastures

Crackbone carries the lamb
The lamb
bleats himself into silence

effluvia in the throat-hold, earthwarm—

Sheep cleaved
from the mountainside

Spore of sheep, wind-bred,
spread, springing up

in clutch & tussock, fun-
gal, many-footed, blight of teeth

Sheep at the sea edge, reef
of driftbone, saltwhite

the amniotic scree
out of which I walked
on the grey rock on the red rock

—Shepherd my tongue into the pen
Crackbone carries lamb.


Caketrain is a literary journal and press based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Our interest is in bringing you, reader, the very best in contemporary creative writing, full stop. Our goals are for each issue of our journal to submerge you in a birthing tank for gelatinous language monsters, young masses of tentacular foci undulating as directed (in all, at once) by our eclectic stable of contributors; for each new book to seduce and ensnare you, sometimes intangibly, always undeniably; and for you, reader, to be able to draw at least one passage from our banks that prods your mind with a precision and power that feels as if it was written for your eyes alone. To wit and to whet, here is a snippet, a slight nip of our delicious lit mix:


New and Upcoming

afterpastures, by Claire Hero
(“Where did that feather come from?” asks Jen Tynes; let's find out)

Caketrain Issue 05
(Now bigger and with more gunbirds! New work from Alan DeNiro, Lisa Jarnot, Blake Butler, Angela Woodward, many more)


Boo. Arf.

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