by Paul Carroll | Jul 4, 2014
Another photo of a twisted, flaming car where minutes before shoppers heard a muezzin call. Off to the side, a little girl, alone, half-hidden by smoke, holding up her shredded hand like a dead animal she doesn’t know where to put. It’s not the...
by Sandra Marchetti | Jun 27, 2014
I walk through our home in mind to make a cup of coffee. Greeting leaves in the picture window, I seem slow to grind the beans. A crystal dish—the things I love— the rooms gleam white and clean. Our desk is neat between your bills, my calendar and pen, the floor plan...
by Sue Burton | Jun 20, 2014
The House of Illusion She’d say, Someday you’ll go on without me. She worked the back of the box. From underneath. Where the saw couldn’t reach. Her name was Ruby. We had nothing in common but our long skinny feet. She was down there in the dark like Nijinsky’s...
by Michael Bazzett | Jun 9, 2014
It was a pale imitation of justice, but all in all we agreed the testimony rang true. Outside, the shadows of the houses swallowed the shadows of the pigeons without flinching. Some things are easier to absorb than others, said the judge, using white gloves and what...
by Melissa Stein | Jun 1, 2014
Mink stoles and sparkling eyes—sparkling, really—and hair curled to nearly edible precision, and the pale satin taut across the bust and the compact waist, from which flared a modest skirt, with a brooch somewhere, and a flower, and the dapper companion in natty suit...
by James Grabill | May 25, 2014
Hendrix jamming at the edge of volcanic expansion in the ‘60s skips ahead to 2039 night-swimming through the fossil-flamed continuum. As crow wings open and close over more than we know of loss or gain, the collaborative intensity of cells revolves around food enough...
