Richard Foerster The Rose of Sharon We argued for weeks, till our differences grew massive as the shrub itself, a wolf devouring space and light. Nothing could live beneath or [...]

Francine Conley Who Are You? I am in something like sleep inside a borrowed room and I wake to a field outside my window where a horse appears grazing on [...]

Bob Fink Mathematics Teacher, 1960 He never, I want to believe, corrected a girl, not with the length of rubber hose reserved for East Texas farmers’ sons like him, who [...]

Adam Tavel The Light Precipitate of Ashes            Restoration of the Great Sphinx, 1400 BC Chiseled flakes of limestone litter down the desert floor. Their aureolin dust clings to chap [...]

Cory Hutchinson-Reuss Group Portrait in Siloam Springs, Arkansas We had heads gold or bronze or black full of bees honeying yes. The pool, laminate blue, blazed against concrete white, brighter [...]

Michelle Y. Burke Not by Extraordinary Means There is so much material     in the material world. We have no yard; the philodendron pots are small; we’ll bury the cat elsewhere. [...]