The boy in the labyrinth is wrapped deep within the tendrils of myth. The sleeping beast’s face, […]
Poetry
After a conversation overheard at the Bagram Air Base DFAC […]
You Take the Diaphragm Out and the Body Opens Like ...
To learn about negative space in art class, you started with a surface dark enough to […]
Caesura by Albert Abonado
I did not panic when I drove my truck into a ditch of trees. Snap of […]
This Body is a Body Collapsing by b: william bearhart
You thought you knew everything about the road. You drove down every one of them, past playgrounds […]
Does the Road Run East or West by Karen Craigo
a junkyard, a loose feather, relief. As in good—thank god I’ve ditched this stark sepulchre for light. […]
Riddance by Megan Peak
M is for Machiavelli, Marilyn Monroe, the market price of madness, and icons or monopolistic despots so […]
Excerpts from Vox Populi, an abecedarian chapbook (M, N, S, ...
They go for her arms first but it’s her mouth that’s screaming Help me as people crowd […]
San Francisco Centre by Kevin Simmonds
They say this land was once an ocean, but I have not found the shells to […]
Batha River by Aaron Brown
The first snowfall begins to turn grey. A homeless guy lies across the freezing sidewalk, hands shaking […]
The First Snowfall by Alicia Ostriker
Repudiate felt good in my mouth, like someone else’s tongue Stephen Dunn Stephen says—though I’m […]
Everywhere I Haven’t Been Anywhere by Laura McCullough
The eyes open to the cry of my neighbor, who is loudly having sex. Her emphatic affirmative […]