by Glen Armstrong My body is here again. It doesn’t want to be. I’m angry at my clothing. I feel unbalanced when I watch movies about people starting over in new towns. My body has been to Detroit. It’s best to say that danger isn’t dangerous. I’m angry that the sensuous yet pragmatic shape of … Continue reading If My Name Were a Verb
Notes From a Waiting Room twenty-seven jumbled pieces formed instinctively work flawlessly together creating music that invite ideas to appear on a scraps of found paper I sketch you out from memory and wishful thinking filling in the blanks with unsaid words. It Lasts Longer an image of you caught unaware in profile backlit in … Continue reading Three Poems by Anne Mikusinski
Rooks There are just two pieces left. Two fragments of our dreams. Two castles in the air, the remnants of a game we played where there was no winner. Like a game of chess with an improbable ending. Just two rooks left on the board. More flying over our castles in the air leaving them … Continue reading Two Poems by Lyn White
by Caitlin Copland I dreamed of the Yaga. She looked me in the eye told me she would consume me. I was not afraid — even when she opened the skylight and began painting with my ashes. & & Caitlin Copland Quietly honing her wordsmith skills, she has recently found her voice in the rich soil … Continue reading Baba Yaga
by Gabriel Ricard Emily and her huge teeth had to learn the weird-waitress- in-a-small-neighborhood-being-eaten- alive-by-the-bigger-surrounding-one- way that you can’t just decide to go to Hollywood, because that’s easier than telling everyone that love is just the worst fucking kind of social contract. And then staying right the fuck there, with her feet on the ground, … Continue reading Mental Health Day on Sunset Boulevard
by Salvatore Difalco When my father was in the late stages of terminal lung cancer — chemo and two operations had not slowed it down — a group of his friends came to our house to visit him. They had been drinking. Giacchino Palmieri, his godson, the loudest among them, slurred and slobbered greetings to my father, who was … Continue reading Cafone
by Caitlin Copland Galaxies are breaking from your skin, love.Purple clad mystics, climbing stairwell veins,to breathe the tides of your good graces.Resting behind midnight blue arcanayou sit,Venus,crowned in sanguine stardustpouring seeded life over this half moon diadem.You are all things I am not.Holding this pomegranate worldwith open generosity,calling all those in need to drink.How could … Continue reading The Empress
by Salvatore Difalco “Ma,” my sister said, “we’re taking you to an appointment. We have to be there at ten o’clock. Do you understand, ma?” Maria, the oldest of my cousins, had come along for support. My mother trusted her. She smiled at Maria; her eyes looked bluer than usual that day, eyes that had … Continue reading Forgive Us
by Gabriel Ricard Your out of body experience may vary, and a lot of it is going to depend on where you want the kids who won’t go home to bring your bones, when you’ve drank everything at some bozo’s inappropriate, fairly pathetic Cinco de Mayo, and you’ve committed yourself to eating flowers by the … Continue reading To Great Lengths
by Gabriel Ricard Doctors and other assorted medical personnel are moving in and out of the cafeteria with varying degrees of arrogance, exhaustion, and the sincerity to do more than the current limits of control for what most people consider reasonably kind. He imagines for fun that the next seven who walk in, pretty much … Continue reading Heartwarming Hostage Situation
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