A Wound That Refuses to Heal

Joe Hitchcock
1 min readJul 29, 2020

An IKEA desk. A fresh-painted fence. A tree in the fullness of its leaves. A muggy day in August, once as a child and again as caretaker, ringing out swim shorts. The tiniest costume. The Walmart wolf.

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Joe Hitchcock

Freelance writer from Vancouver, Canada. Posting odds and ends that never made it to print. www.joehitchcock.ca.