Dear wild-water child who does not wish to have a name, Last night, I had another […]
Poetry
Blonde, blue-eyed boys of the world, confess our sad bones to each other— do not be […]
Bully Pulpit by Matt W. Miller
I think it is beautiful that Emerson dug his wife out of the grave a year […]
On Beholding the Beloved’s Rotting Body by Carlene Kucharczyk
In the streetlight where all the exiles congregate, my shadows walk below me in upturned collars, […]
Vase of Ashes by Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello
Makassar prison camp, Indonesia (1944) Though the purity Of moonlight has silenced Both nightingale and Cricket —Anonymous […]
War Music by Andrew Deloss Eaton
sound like goats the sky grey like the lining of my pockets, smells wet like my McDonald’s […]
Kids out the window by Lisa Alexander
“The father had been wise to show them before his death that work is a treasure.” […]
Needlework by Emily Mohn-Slate
In 2013, there were 319,325 migrant workers in Hong Kong. About half were Indonesian and nearly all […]
From Vacuum by Nicholas Wong
You are old. You do not mind any more than you minded being young. It’s exciting […]
Newborn by Soren Stockman
when I walk the acre and dream of my nor’easters they’re on a harsher land; cattle […]
Florida child speaks to hurricane seahorses by Leah Claire Kaminski
The boy—ten or twelve—was begging roadside, shirtless, to show the still-bleeding wound. Shot in Kampala, he […]
Elegy I Pray is Not an Elegy (The Wound) by ...
title after Peter Gelderloos, South End Press, 2007 In our office, the male TAs talked […]