Peach-colored butterflies have freed themselves from the wallpaper but, with no experience flying, have dropped to the floor […]
TQ23 Poetry Prize
I think you should know he was thirty-three,and not my first. I think you should know the sky […]
Curriculum Vitae by Lara Egger
I. The trees are still mostly green. One hemisphere of paleness, a plaque or two of blood-coloreds, […]
It’s time to write poems now about my father by ...
I studied fire scars on turbine blades by blue tape measure, by calendar. By blue tape measure, […]
Necklace by Laura Joyce-Hubbard
“O sweetness of eternity, may my heart grow to love thee” Prayers for Fellow-Prisoners To repeat a word […]
Alzheimer’s pantoum by Alex Chertok
—after Vuillard’s Garden at Vaucresson House is a dappled construct House is a shadowed land on a small […]
After Vuillard by Sarah Maclay
Not enough language for the singing flock. The man fishing at the mouth of it. Tonight, I hang dresses […]
Scene XXXV by Loisa Fenichell
It threatens to charm me: the sternness of centers. Oh, I have turned away to find my sister […]
PERSISTENCE by Jessica O. Marsh
Say I’m killed by lightning while feeding a horse. A light drizzle, the meadow wide and lush. Say […]
Life Insurance (Free Consultation) by Peter Krumbach
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 […]