Tori Malcangio Ever Seen Sedona? I’m kneeled on the old woman’s green shag carpet, bubble-wrapping forty-three Tiffany- crystal miniature presidential busts from her china cabinet. Lance is across the [...]
Todd Davis Cenotaph I dream my dead father spends most of the afternoon’s hours stacking rock he gathers from the dried riverbed. Drought means he must carry five-gallon buckets to [...]
Joelle Biele When You Were at Children's I Wanted to Go Back to When you were small, we went to the garden store, the cart you sat, sometimes stood in, [...]
Christine Fadden The Geography of Changing Course Driving to work one day in 2009, I heard Kalas’ voice on the radio. I heard people talking about his voice. It [...]
Lauren Markham Just a Cupful In a rare moment of quiet, Carmita settles into Dr. Malcom's recliner. She should be sweeping up the crumbs from lunch and emptying the dishwasher, [...]
Gabriel Houck A Hurricane on My Television August 26th, 2005 I am sitting on my balcony in Los Angeles, listening to the rush of the freeways and the clinking of [...]
Richard Moore Princeton Dreaming My stepfather, Bud, pushed me across the kitchen, slamming my shoulder into the sharp corner of a hanging kitchen cabinet. I held my breath as pain [...]
Jericho Parms Lost Wax Every time I wander through a Greek and Roman sculpture court, a mezzanine of antiquities, a hall of baroque-styles figures, I want to be disassembled: to [...]
Laurie Blauner The Flight of Significant Objects I want a companion with blue surfaces for hiding. A landing place. I let go of an unnerving ascension, scenes where nothing bad [...]
Joseph Fasano The Dead Here they are. They sit in their old rooms, clutching the soft riding gloves of October. The wind lies open beside them like the pages of [...]
William C. Olsen Green Flash (September 15, 2010) As the sun sets it dims to a stage-light brightness you can gawk at, but the crinkled light on crinkled lake is [...]
William C. Olsen The Afterlife of Deer Anything but unsurprising is a habit deer have What they are to me until they happen in snow/leaf/wind sun/rain/moon is nothing if not [...]