by Raina J. León | Apr 4, 2022
i peruse paint samples to learn what shade names you. a blend of calumet cream1 and ivory2 and atyour cheek blush rose, but i didn’t need a color chart for that. at six months, you have lost theshimmer that teens buy cheap or steal in their first transgressions, but...
by F. Geoffrey Johnson | Mar 31, 2022
not nearly enough to cleanse the stench, funkgrime and crime within the walls of an estate corruptnot enough to baptize a new beginning ordissolve evil embedded in historical detail shadows of slaveholders, hustlers, con men, thievesan occasional preacherwalk these...
by Michele Parker Randall | Mar 25, 2022
My thumbnail pressesinto tangerine top,oily mist spray arcs over my hand,fragrant and sharp.One pull and threads of pith and peelsurrender, revealingsegments and skin. Would that everythingopen this easily.My son grows more quiet as each month goesby and I want—like...
by Dana Curtis | Mar 11, 2022
I was abandoned under the marquee of a movie theater. I was raised by ushers and ticket takers and projectionists. My earliest memory is of William Powell and Myrna Loy. My earliest memory is of Silvia Pinal in a wedding dress, holding a candelabra. My earliest memory...
by darlene anita scott | Mar 9, 2022
About blood: it’s only one means of being alive.Every living cognitive doesn’t have or use itto transport nutrients & oxygen. Sometimescreatures use alternative systems. This meansthere are ways of being alive that look nothinglike the somatic supposition opposite...
by Matthew Lippman | Feb 20, 2022
(for Michael Morse) All I know is that I was somewhere in space and time reading Larry Levis.A poem about God. How God is always and forever 17. I don’t remember much about the poemand what I do remember is not really of much importance. What matters is that I was on...
