Deliver me from this rubble, a bent beam, rusted square nails, laths smashed to slivers. I’ve […]
Ryan Gunn
Read “The Musing Gaze: a conversation with Chad Parmenter” here. Sex was a lead lens—even for […]
Sex was a lead lens by Chad Parmenter
Lie flat on your back in the black lake this night of your annunciation. The water’s […]
Grace by Sandra Marchetti
Next door he’s found his sax, Lord. Do you hear him play into sunlight as if […]
Prayer at Noonday by Sara Parrell
after the painting by George Bellows, 1912 A ship is drifting up the river, through the […]
Men of the Docks by David Salner
Open Letter to Marshall Berman (1940-2013) By Eric Darton MARSHALL BERMAN Spirit only becomes […]
Twin Eulogies: Marshall Berman (by Eric Darton) and Tato Laviera ...
1. We are the pretend proprietors of earth, section off space as if air was a dessert […]
The Nature of Containment by Lavonne Adams
Remember we broke earth for the thrush, cupped its body in our hands, mottled with the haste […]
Migration by Casey Nichols
Teach me life between no voice and scream. Teach me how drums listen to the horns, […]
Evening Prayer Sara Parrell
TQ2 Prose Open Runner-Up is an impetuous mess, such unacknowledged need—no wonder no one can look […]
The Unreliable Patient by Andrea Witzke Slot
What you keep I pretend I never sought before. Foothold traps, this shallow channel, torn white […]
Dear Swamp by Casey Nichols
In the story, the starfields lie empty. A bird no one looks at perches on a branch, […]