Say I’m killed by lightning while feeding a horse. A light drizzle, the meadow wide and lush. Say […]
TQ23 Poetry Prize
The stream moves uneasily after run-off shines with pollution as we make our way to the edge, touch […]
Aubade Between Two Counties by Kat Neis
No abduction. Just a hoop of light I felt like stepping into. At a folding desk with a box […]
Explaining Marriage to an Alien by Peter Krumbach
Cours Cabronne, Nantes In the downpour, a girl was burying a small box. Inside, a hamster, dead and wrapped […]
Nocturne with Burials by Kat Neis
The dwarf palm curves up and out from the soil behind the shoulder-high wall the way the coyote […]
Wildfire by Steve McDonald
Justin and I stole my boyfriend’s Ford wagon for its beach pass sticker and drove out to […]
Mercy by Katharine Whitcomb
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 […]