Some storms are quiet, an engine starting up. Others smell of gasoline, rising through the rain, […]
TQ3 Poetry Contest
No warning, no tightening in the trees to signal the onslaught of undulation, the hum […]
Magicicada by Carey Russell
Perhaps when you came across me I was a fist finally coming open. A foal in […]
Sestina for a Batterer (March) by Edie Rhoads
. . . . . envelope with stitching arrives in late September how was I […]
Monarch Season by Gabriel Jesiolowski
I had been a ghost in boots and lace, the green wheat beyond the wire […]
How it Felt to be Born by Lauren Eggert-Crowe
I unhooked and took her down hand warm and worn like a spoon silvered with use […]
Amina (August) by Edie Rhoads
She never saw God in her fits— not the way the others did: what if […]
The Humility of St. Teresa of Ávila by Rochelle Hurt
How thirst does the work, then the eyes How the whipped cream of a Frappuccino stands […]
I Love To Be Your Witness by Nicholas Wong
after Richard Siken Tell me again about the rain, tell me how it’s good […]
Prologue by Jane Medved
I trailed my dad downstairs into the morgue. The man whose leg he had them save for us […]
Legacy by Eric Berlin
Teach me the spider’s ontological geometry. Let me be born to spin myself, this edge to another edge […]
Apprentice by Catherine Turnbull
Sometimes a prayer can be about re-entering the haunting. Sometimes it needs your voice to speak […]