by Susan Hutton | Feb 23, 2017
Because the day changed you. Because your sister just left one day and made you the one who. Because you forget most of it, the parts you remember make up your life. Because I was biking behind the truck when I saw those deer spook and run the long hypotenuse between...
by Partridge Boswell | Feb 22, 2017
—after cummings and Spinoza We do not know what a body can do… how when she crossed the street asking you for a dollar so she could get something to eat, you fished in your pocket and peeled a twenty from a sheaf of bills saying: This...
by Wesley McNair | Feb 15, 2017
Whenever the revolution breaks out in this country, he’s ready to go, dressed in camouflage all the way up to the visor on his cap, but today outside the town store, fast-talking with his lips close together to hold in his upper plate, Russell...
by Tom Paine | Feb 8, 2017
I Have Been a Liar I have lied, a cowardly man, a lover of your kind; merely in mind; movie-making, I have spent my seasons coming, counting time by tissue: quivering cock, finger-clenched, crazed. A man like me is not a man, really. I have been a liar. I dream my...
by Francine Conley | Feb 2, 2017
The Wedding Portrait –“The Arnolfini Wedding Portrait” Van Eyck (1434) In the painting the couple stands with their hands touching and enough apart to notice the shaggy gray dog smiling between them. The woman’s shoes set on...
by James Daniels | Jan 25, 2017
breaks the pattern of pre- fixes and suffixes not taking the stress: [in-fuh-muhs] which makes me think: muh-fuhs as in what you muh-fuhs lookin at? which could have been an infamous last question, given that those muh-fuhs stared at me all the hard-rockier and...
