Long winter clouds, and a train rushing on over empty flatlands, and no one on the train […]
Poetry
The boy in the labyrinth wanders inside the bull’s hot breath. Each curl of mist, a blue […]
Labyrinth 91 by Oliver de la Paz
(“my particular”) Seeking succor I traveled your pilgrim’s course ignorantly, coincidentally as impenitent, unbeliever, but […]
Excerpt from: In June, the Labyrinth by Cynthia Hogue
the shanty preacher’s daughter I’ll pick a shantyman over anybody to dance with. Hips and stories […]
Shantyfolk Dance Floor by Heather Dobbins
Awake, you know the echoes of that sound. Bright morning noise: a blanket for draping over the […]
My Mother As A Keeper of the Treasures at La ...
to be up to someone else the morning I nearly call […]
iPod Shuffle—When You Want It by Lisa Fay Coutley
Pure, as in: the topmost layer of a recent snowstorm, the loam-richness of the compost bin in […]
An Excision by Molly Sutton Kiefer
The death of a star begins with the dramatic collapse of its core. When they have played […]
My Dad is Not a Star by Matthew Walsh
I guess the sunset forgot to tell them about its beauty. Ditto the stars. Because the evening […]
No Philosopher Has Yet Solved the Problem of Evil by ...
The visible leg is mirrors, the material ego reflected in tiers of a year, the legend of […]
Woman Descending the Staircase by Amy King
Moon & Pillow say this is yesterday, and I’ve pasted you back together with salt. I mixed […]
I Dream; Therefore You Are by Melissa Studdard
The people they were cropping for kept a dump behind the big house where she went sometimes […]