Sometimes a prayer can be about re-entering the haunting. Sometimes it needs your voice to speak […]
Poetry
So, this is what it means […]
The Body’s Instinct is to Bloom by Sandy Longhorn
What it was, we called by name. We danced in its tar like slow pilgrims, we […]
Manifestations by Christina Mengert
While teaching about hijab, one bra strap slips off my shoulder, cordons my upper arm. […]
Look by Elizabeth Harlan-Ferlo
Because the warning has come early enough, the headlights of neighbors catch me in sweeps, scraping […]
The Killing Frost by Chera Hammons
I have un-marbled your lunch pail of its patina of jelly, its bloom of mold. What […]
Leftover by Sarah Giragosian
wailing stars flee above me as ground yields or doesn’t yield and I run […]
Ghost Code #3 by Veronica Golos
Without intent, the muscles contract, spasm, tremor, kink, shut the jaw, shake food loose from the […]
Hypertonia by Laurie Clements Lambeth
Your despoilers will become your spoil […]
Let Us Go, My Beloved by Yael Massen
There are gobbets glimmering on the windshield not rain. I divide the pecan forest, the neglected wonderground, […]
Ideology of Sky by Eric Wertheimer
for Nora Paley The sound rang out as if the life itself (and everyone touched) became the […]
Burying Winter by Beatrix Gates
The locals have laid down their bets on when the thick lake ice will break up […]