Leila Chatti—Beginning
Leila Chatti Beginning Turning in your cavern like a pint-sized spelunker, I learned to swim. From him I came, his milky tadpole, and in you I waited to receive myself, [...]
Richard Jones—Dali
Richard Jones Dali In my tiny Paris galley kitchen, I keep an eye on the clock as I arrange the cheese on a blue plate— a Pouligny-Saint-Pierre goat cheese shaped [...]
Patricia Hanahoe-Dosch—Why the Wind Makes that Sound
Patricia Hanahoe-Dosch Why the Wind Makes that Sound It was the relief of the gray and brown albatross faltering in its descent in one moment in a gust of wind, [...]
Alison Powell—Conditions
Alison Powell Conditions Animals drift out there in the monotonous green of Chernobyl A fact known to most of us theoretically which is to say photographicallyThey use the magnetic fields [...]
Julia Heney—The End
Julia Heney The End I left the familiar town, with all my things: in my waking life, it was my town. I was hiding from me or I was found [...]
H. E. Francis—Crossing the Common
H. E. Francis Crossing the Common Alexandra always bought the Italian bread at Federico’s in the Italian section by the U. S. Rubber, “the shop” the workers called it. [...]
Susan Terris—Sockeye Dream
Susan Terris Sockeye Dream Salt water swimmer with freshwater memory, years spent displaced but yearning,let me follow you. I, too, remember upstream, its pine-dusted air and scent. When you lookfor [...]
Rachel Michelle Hanson—Ways of Leaving
Rachel Michelle Hanson Ways of Leaving The story goes like this: a Utah writer came home early and found a man in bed with his wife. In a fit of [...]
Luke Hankins—Wreck
Luke Hankins Wreck Walking past a telephone pole struck by a car, I see the pole has been righted, the wires repaired. I drove by earlier today as firemen strapped [...]
Patrick Mainelli—Get Away
Patrick Mainelli Get Away “It’s about the stars,” she explains. “He doesn’t know if they’re there, or if they’re not there. So he decides all he wants is to look [...]
Samantha Tucker—I’m Depending on You
Samantha Tucker I'm Depending on You to Tell Me the Truth She is on a boat. It’s a ship, not a boat, and everything is Technicolor because it’s 1962 and [...]
Hannah Dow—The Harp Know How to Be Stripped Bare
Hannah Dow The Harp Knows How to be Stripped Bare Just for tonight, let’s not mock them. Mary Szybist, “The Troubadours Etc.” [...]