Denise Jarrot
Denise Jarrott Doomsday Book next to a river that seems too dangerous to encounter the afternoon leisure town watching water watching rocks Joshua with a bag of cherries a book [...]
George Kalamaras
George Kalamaras Thinking of Bill Porter’s Finding Them Gone, I Wonder How Can it Be that a Long Life for a Dog is Equivalent to the Depth, in Feet, of [...]
David Kirby
David Kirby PO Box 1142 How else to explain those hands? How he sat in the front pew & held his fingers like lattice, just a little too neat, [...]
Kevin McLellan
Kevin McLellan Not an Anthem any use of we feels self- serving or assaultive to you / in other words you would like his heart inside of you / though [...]
Owen McLeod
Owen McLeod In the U-Haul Parking Lot T-shirt armpits haloed with salt, Big Mac on your breath, you wait for a cab to take you back to the one-bedroom you [...]
Rowan Beaird
Rowan Beaird Ohio, Summer I. The boy sits on the concrete lot that juts out onto the water, his feet dangling over the nook where water meets sand. There is [...]
Erika Meitner
Erika Meitner Elegy with Lo-Fi Selfie I am thinking of you while riding shotgun past the Celanese Plant at dusk mid-December this sprawling factory on the New River the world’s [...]
Raul Clement
Raul Clement Space Roosters! The aliens landed outside his hospital window. He had been staring out the window, unable to sleep, when the blue light atomic-blasted the sky. It cast [...]
Nick Molbert
Nicholas Molbert Living After the Theory of Everything It gives me insight to reconcile bafflements long-held, like mangoes and poison ivy sharing a plant family,and it gives me the prescience [...]
Kim Winter Mako
Kim Winter Mako Right-dog Vs. Left-dog Eight lines lit up and Tracey reached for the phone. Aurelio pushed her hand away. “Watch me,” he said. He started with the top [...]
Josh Myers
Josh Myers What Fascism Means to Me By the shrinking border of the forest there’s a bird that’s learned to imitate a chainsaw. In a language I’ve forgotten, power is [...]
Hema Padhu
Hema Padhu Silent Downpour It’s been raining for three days straight. It’s monsoon season, and the streets of Mumbai are flooded but mercifully empty as I walk to work this [...]