Lauren Markham – Just a Cupful
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, [...]
Laurie Blauner – The Flight of Significant Objects
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
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
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
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 [...]
Jonathan Barrett – The Alabaster Jar
Johnathan Barrett The Alabaster Jar (a fallen sonnet) This jar is your blistered feet on fire. This jar is my hair falling on flames, a chorus of gasps, my sleeves [...]
Lisa Lewis – Taxonomy for the Missing
Lisa Lewis Taxonomy of the Missing You couldn’t help feeling sorry for them. They swaggered when they walked And wept when they sat down. The bones shone through their skin [...]
Jen Edwards – Circus
Jen Edwards Circus I remember where I came from: my parents blind from the dust, bowl shaped scars carved in their skin. The earth sieved through the roof when [...]
Gary Whitby – Adding up the Days
Gary Whitby Adding up the Days First there was a bird that spoke inside a tree inside my hand. The tree then grew beside my house, the one we lived [...]
Elizabeth Arnold – Arc
Elizabeth Arnold Arc I was out of time before I started,the meyer lemon blooming while full of fruit, our breezeway lettinga breeze through, its floor smooth, that kind that stays [...]
Marjorie Stelmach – Survival in the Northern Woods
Marjorie Stelmach Survival in the Northern Woods In ancient Rome it was considered a sin to eat the [...]
Esteban Rodríguez – Cactus
Estaban Rodríguez Cactus Mid-August. The last of July's clouds curdle through the sky like expired milk, stain the dry Bermuda grass with shifting Rorschach shadows, and a sense the afternoon [...]