The Idea

is not to be
the biggest or
toughest
man in the
prison

but to be
the most affirming
in his beliefs;

the birdman
Robert Stroud
studying birds in
such a way
that no one would
ever want anything

to do with
him.

Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author residing in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many mounds of snow.  His work can be found both in print and online in such places as: Evergreen Review, The New York Quarterly, The Rye Whiskey Review, The Dope Fiend Daily, Red Fez, and The Oklahoma Review.