by Didi Jackson | Dec 15, 2014
FINDING A NEW RELIGION In blue light, they take everything off, pleats and plaid fall to the floor, windows open to the cold of night, his hands warm as Sunday, aching from the miles of minutes between them, a communion of the body, grace they need from each other....
by Lola Haskins | Dec 7, 2014
Solinopsis Invicta 1. A Speck finds its mate in a thin cirrus of other specks four hundred feet above the earth. Afterwards, the female tears off her wings. Kick a mound and specks startle in all directions like handfuls of tiny lights. 2....
by Amy Hassinger | Dec 1, 2014
compass point prick page pencil stub draw arc graphite arc sizzle light burn thou insistent sun bright head nestle elbow heel-round graze wrist hot mouth draw nipple take thou body take dawn slip closet shut kneel love rustle silk pant heart secret here thou secret...
by The Editors | Nov 25, 2014
When we were out walking that day, our voices drowned by the sea, we talked about our bodies in a city of plastic surgery, how to love them without resenting gravity, the daytime moon pressing down on us as we walked side by side, stepping over dead men...
by Maureen Seaton | Nov 18, 2014
A Dozen Poems (I Mean Pelicans) Flew over My House Shouting Seaton (I Mean Sea) Stories Since I’d never seen pelicans in flight, and only in photos, pouches ballooning with bluefish, I was unprepared the first time I saw a dozen of them glide in formation along...
by Todd Davis | Nov 14, 2014
Willow blossoms deep in the lane, a rooster calls out at noon. Young mulberry leaves are still sharp and less than green. —Fan Ch’eng-ta In the waning dark old apple trees set the ridgeside ablaze with blossoms and bees, night’s tenderness captured in the vanishing...
