Derek Mong
Derek Mong In the Land Between Sex and Conception there are no trees, save the shadows of trees, and words that roll their shadows to root. Whatever line will divide [...]
Derek Mong—The Second Year
Derek Mong The Second Year Like the last house still lit within a cul-de-sac you draw the street’s sporadic light behind your glass and hold it. Your thoughts, I mean, [...]
Derek Mong—The Undecided Voter
Derek Mong The Undecided Voter Look for me in the stillness preceding your footsteps, in the hand hovering over a tray of desserts. My shadow angles at any given hour [...]
Clint Smith
Clint Smith How to Make a Cardboard Box Disappear in 10 Steps 1) Find the scissors 2) Cut the sides of the cube 3) Attend the rally of Trayvon Martin [...]
Clint Smith—For Charles
Clint Smith For Charles On January 8, 1811 three men gathered together and planned what would be the largest slave revolt in American [...]
Annie Olson—A New and Different Sun
Annie Olson A New and Different Sun I flew to Anchorage in late May of 2002. I don’t remember the plane ride. I also don’t remember which hotel I stayed [...]
Alice Elliott Dark—My Blue Trunk
Alice Elliott Dark My Blue Trunk Recently I had an email from my Paris friend. I still think of her that way, though she hasn’t lived in Paris for twenty-five [...]
Edie Meidav—Questions of Travel
Edie Meidav Questions of Travel "Parco Guell 002" by Phyrexian - Own work. "Kvinnohuvud1-hstd" by Jonas Ericsson - Own work. Is it better to have stayed here and thought of [...]
Indira Ganesan—Not Knowing
Indira Ganesan Not Knowing Driving early in the morning is like driving in the night. If you live at the end of Cape Cod, as I do, where you are [...]
Keith Woodruff—Gloucester
Keith Woodruff Gloucester After all your suffering, you die offstage. Your heart bursts smilingly from the joy and shock of learning your son is alive. No such merciful exit for [...]
Dan Beachy-Quick—Poem
Dan Beachy-Quick Poem The final revision—is of breath— A comma follows soberly, a comma Follows quiet, and there is none at all In the branch swept down from the ash.Anapest, [...]
Ruvanee Pietersz Vilhauer—Accident
Ruvanee Pietersz Vilhauer Accident David tripped on Sonia Aunty’s verandah steps and hit his face on our third day in Colombo. I worried that his bloody nose would affect his [...]