She wanted to plant a tree below her left shoulder. Her skin, the earth, the color […]
TQ14 Poetry Open Contest
She should in ground unsanctified have lodged / Till the last trumpet. For charitable prayer / […]
Constellation for Ophelia by Anita Olivia Koester
Such pellagra of psyche her bequest to me. Visions visited her, and voices too. Mom heard. Saved scores […]
Lookout by Randy Smith
Because only dwarf birches grow here, we dream of tall trees. Where we came from, a […]
Forgotten Forests in a Land of Little Green by Gillian ...
The pause of the blood, the not now or ever impasse of womb, iron of emptiness, […]
Menopause by Holaday Mason
Just this light. And it might go on forever. Stare straight. The sun wants your shadow […]
At the Council of a Sleepless Solstice by Gillian Cummings
The cemetery’s metal crescents glint across the road from the corrugated roofs of the village, each […]
Autumn Drive by Raphael Dagold
After Rain, Steam and Speed–The Great Western Railway, 1844 For these boys it’s the closest […]
Rain, Steam, and Speed by Kyle McCord
America on the brink of war, 1940, and my father born on a dairy farm turned […]
A History of My Father as the History of McDonald’s ...
Those Little Anodynes manages to weave family history (a connection to Emily Dickinson) with an unverifiable […]
Judge’s Citation by Nick Flynn
There’s a fundamental difference between showering when it’s raining and showering […]
Basic Hygiene by Kara Candito
The daughter fell into the raft of mallards, an impatient tortoise rising from beneath. Theirs was […]