I did not knowhow to touch, to be touched. My body a scrap of parchment, reflectionin the well, […]
Poetry
A mother ghost who died in childbirth or died leaving young children behind.This yūrei returns to care for […]
Ubume by Amanda Auchter
Almost as if the stars were being blurred. How the word decay sits and moans. It wasn’t deliberate, […]
Even in this mess, something smells good outside my balcony ...
Until the body becomes a flower, knowing its curvature in space. An acceleration of speed, a pushing away […]
Something about vibration and sensory neurons by Barbara Berg
2022 AD When everything started, the newscasters saidall would be back to normal soonerthan later. Now the […]
The Shores of Babylon by M. Cynthia Cheung
Thistlesscary and beautiful the bud like a globe each leaf […]
Artichokes by Patrice Boyer Claeys
My father’s shame for never having fought. Three draft-age brothers in lottery.I […]
My Family Was Organized Around War by H.E. Fisher
I went to a gun shop to buy pepper spray. There were […]
Arms by H.E. Fisher
NASA confirmed a meteor exploded over Pittsburgh like thirty tons of TNT. Some thought it was a bomb. […]
Displacement by H.E. Fisher
I just want to fix people’s limbs, Luke sayswhen I ask about the purpose of his residency,and the […]
Argument with Orthopedics by Alex Mouw
as in blue; as in watercolor blue and running down a slip of damp paper;as in one summer […]
YOU WERE BESIDE YOURSELF by Genevieve Payne
There’s the laundry mat on Island Ave. where you can get a tan and a soft serveand the […]