No abduction. Just a hoop of light I felt like stepping into. At a folding desk with a box […]
Poetry
The dwarf palm curves up and out from the soil behind the shoulder-high wall the way the coyote […]
Wildfire by Steve McDonald
Golden Shovel after Emily Dickinson The body is on its knees apparently gardening is something like prayer as […]
The Garden by Steve McDonald
Agnus Dei, Samuel Barber, 1967 Instrument of the body, breath, larynx—the Rotterdam Symphony Chorus, 2015, lifts me out […]
Lamb of God X: After a Next Beheading by Jed ...
That post-electro-shock therapy lookon my grandmother’s face. Her mornings in the yellow world we called them. Cheekbones a […]
PORTRAIT MODE by Christopher Salerno
Funny, I thought Effigee would be a woman, her story stretched out soft coal and sorry before me, […]
GIVEN NAME: Effigee Sampson by Naima Yael Tokunow
You were misnamed Auguster, a boy’s name some would say, and your mother called Amy instead of Annie […]
GIVEN NAME: Listerine Woods by Naima Yael Tokunow
of the Woods I am in a dark soft hole. My mother put me here. I […]
A Brief History by Erin Carlyle
hey you don’t be fooled by the banana of my skin I’m […]
ONE OF THE GOOD ONES by Lyn Li Che
your hands moved through me like water yet here I am […]
PREY by Lyn Li Che
I have heard lately, more than once, of men falling out of their beds. Sometimes they hurt […]
How We Live Now by Ruth Danon
I think you should know he was thirty-three,and not my first. I think you should know the sky […]