Frances Richey
Dear Kier I woke this morning wondering if you’ve gone to the Celestial. The last time I saw you, we met under the gold four-faced clock...
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Apr 29
Kate Hubbard
The End of Something is Not Nothing All I had to do: cross my eyes, unline the composition book, strip the horizon of its ink, and...
Apr 29
Jeanne Julian
The Burrowers Recall Life A.G.* Windows instead of hatchways—before the sun up and melted our glass. We ate crunch and color, and if you...
Apr 29
Patrick Meeds
Dominoes Falling I have a wobbly loose tooth memory. Is it me or are things always changing? I never thought I’d want to live in silence...
Apr 29
H.E. Fisher
A Cigarette Burns on the Asphalt in the Hospital Parking Lot Half-smoked, half-alive, blazing chemical-orange head. Why let it burn? Why...
Apr 29
Christine Barkley
Reception October isn’t autumn anymore. Smoke signals and summer passes on its laze, its long wait for fire -break. We receive the...
Apr 29
Kevin Sweeney
The Temperature In Aroostook County Melancholy arrives with clouds and news the ocean is 57 degrees at the Large Navigational Buoy this...
Apr 29
Tim Suermondt
Alone On The Basketball Court It’s not that I’m selfish—I love my teammates, even love those I play against, especially when in my...
Apr 29
Paula Reed Nancarrow
That January * January 15, 2021 A week before he died, my father became a great-grandfather. To twins. My sister was spending most nights...
Apr 29
Kate Kearns
Back at the Party I’m salsa dancing with my dad again, his hands bounce mine toward him and away, a parallel track our feet follow. I’m...
Apr 29
Lex Runciman
193rd Day, 172 Days to Come --i. m. Erik Muller Always in your own hand, your letters on recycled paper, an ancient diary page this time,...
Apr 29
Rachel Vinciguerra
The downside of choosing a Frank Sinatra song to play at a funeral– Is that you might run into it now and again, over your bolognese, At...
Apr 29
Michael Hettich interview of Eric Nelson
MH: Thank you, Eric, for agreeing to respond to these interview questions, most of which will focus on your most recent book, Horse Not...
Apr 29
Review of Steve Langan's Bedtime Stories
Book Review for Steve Langan's Bedtime Stories (Littoral Books, 2024) Bedtime Stories navigates the depths within the small moments of...
Apr 29
Cecil Morris
Mermaid on the Rocks she will not remember this morning tomorrow she will not remember in her Ambien daze she became a mermaid her legs...
Apr 22
editor's notes
"All truths wait in all things" - Walt Whitman April 30, 2023, the day I crossed the Fiume Tevere, the Tiber River, on foot. I've been...
Apr 22
Table of Contents
editor's notes headlines: A beauty I cannot capture, a film by Lior Locher Amanda Tinker Pamela Hart Jeanne Julian Patrick Meeds Tilly...
Apr 22
Eric Nelson
Clearing the Air He’s drifting out of the woods, head bowed, right arm raised and waving slowly, the way someone in church reaches God....
Apr 19
Pamela Hart
Spring Snow Prison Pantoum Wipers ticking against car windshield While snow dissolves on glass. March light widening like the nearby...
Apr 19
Chris Bullard
Day of the Dead Calaveras Literarias I’d buried my past selves in desert graves where the authorities wouldn’t look. Now, they’ve...
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