Grey tests the hook by shaving up bits of his thumbnail. He winds a piece of […]
Prose
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The Boiling Glass by Okla Elliott
Saúl wanted me to take him to see the snow. Every week throughout the fall of 2009, […]
Seeing the Snow by Anne Raeff
To be is to be an archive. […]
An Excerpt from Griefing on Summit by Joseph Harrington
(from her novel Elizabeth Street, 1905) Thin drops of hail were hitting the tall back windows in […]
an excerpt from Miss Amadeo’s Notebook by Gioia Timpanelli
A dying man, Gerald Geller, decides to reclaim his long-dead name so he can die with his record […]
Lost in a Crowd by Thomas Carney
I let myself be kissed like the man finds the plums in the icebox and eats them and […]
Wave Particle Theory by Barbara Mossberg
The man and the woman slammed themselves into the car with relief. Certainly, the little beach cottage […]
Two Musketeers by Joan Frank
Did no one tell him that he couldn’t do it? That it can’t be done, period? He got […]
Driving to Hawaii by James Bystander
Sometimes the woman in the mirror is not you. That’s how this poem will end, I’m telling you […]
I’m Shaking It I’m Making It But the Woman in ...
It’s an ancient memory—or is it a dream? My mother is putting me to bed, just finishing off […]
The Silkie of Spuyten Duyvil by BJ Atwood-Fukuda
An uncle is a babysitter in a pinch, which happens rarely, only when Mother has to run out […]