You’d show up in pajama pants and slippers to dig ditches for the old boy at the mic. He knew you’d always be an hour late, he says, and then you’d have to go get breakfast which took another hour, then another hour to eat it. Laughter. “Tomorrow, Charlie, […]
Think of Susie Love and Silver Son, my aunt said. She spouted nonsense words, her eyes sightless. The news was on. A man said a pit bull ripped a boy apart on his way to school. Same day a guy grabbed a girl’s chest on the bus and […]
“Among couples who had a stillbirth, nearly 60 percent broke up within ten years, while close to half of couples who had a miscarriage broke up within a decade”- Amy Norton, Reuter’s Health, 2010 Because you are the prayer, today. Because you are the train ‘s […]
Patron Saint of architects, firemen, miners, prisoners, artillerymen, and firemen When my father locked me in a tower, I didn’t know what to make of so much horizon. […]
Download the PDF file . July Westhale is the author of Trailer Trash (2016 Kore Press Book Award), The Cavalcade (Finishing Line Press), and the children’s book Occasionally Accurate Science (Nomadic Press). Her most recent poetry can be found in The National Poetry Review, burntdistrict, Eleven Eleven, 580 […]
There is no lavender in her. No lily or silk. My mother Warned me any woman That covets woman, contains Danger, You just run, so I nodded and looked away. My mother who has twice Come between brothers. Mother, whose body demands A constant voltage. Her vision Trained […]
Download the PDF file . July Westhale is the author of Trailer Trash (2016 Kore Press Book Award), The Cavalcade (Finishing Line Press), and the children’s book Occasionally Accurate Science (Nomadic Press). Her most recent poetry can be found in The National Poetry Review, burntdistrict, Eleven Eleven, 580 […]
Download the PDF file . July Westhale is the author of Trailer Trash (2016 Kore Press Book Award), The Cavalcade (Finishing Line Press), and the children’s book Occasionally Accurate Science (Nomadic Press). Her most recent poetry can be found in The National Poetry Review, burntdistrict, Eleven Eleven, 580 […]
Download the PDF file . John A. Nieves poems forthcoming or recently published in journals such as: Cincinnati Review, Pleiades, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Literary Review, Poetry Northwest and Copper Nickel. His first book, Curio, won the Elixir Press Annual Poetry Award Judge’s Prize and came out in […]
Do you think the saying is true: when someone dies, a library burns down? – Alison Benis White Maybe I am the verb. To have a child is to learn we are all dying by degrees. I want to bring my child home. To wrap her […]