The small setting sun, an iron sheet of pain It curls up into half-light, rolls as […]
Poetry
Read “The Musing Gaze: a conversation with Chad Parmenter” here. She’s the image you are but […]
She’s the image you are but far more by Chad ...
Women grease a watermelon with Crisco. Men divide into teams, dive into […]
Another Summer by Jennifer Luebbers Leonard
Read “The Musing Gaze: a conversation with Chad Parmenter” here. Sinematic—that’s what film becomes in motion. […]
Sinematic by Chad Parmenter
How should I answer her question, did you kill anyone overseas? I […]
A Blind Date Asks About the War by Brandon Courtney
Barbed-wire fence. Pasture. Stand of water oaks. This was the path to the river. Sometimes chased, sometimes […]
Portrait of my Brother as Indiana Jones by Amorak Huey
It’s easy to dote on a son; a man is another story. I stop in the garden alcove […]
That’s One Way to Think of It by Mary Ann ...
The fear of not being wanted. And the shame of that fear. Children’s voices through the open […]
Shame by Mary Ann Samyn
what it will be like, not being here: a lot, in fact, like not being in Des […]
I think I know by Dan Lewis
I. For those of you I’ve forgotten, I haven’t and it’s getting easier like trusting a […]
Leaving the Oven On by Hannah Baggott
* * * what more do I want, knowing it […]
Translations of Pēters Brūveris by Inara Cedrins
Psalm 61: hear my cry Not yet fearless she moans a little moan only the […]