George Franklin – Origami
Origami She takes a sheet of white paper And breaks it in a knife-sharp fold. The edge could draw blood. She takes an edge, cracking The ribs of paper. If paper Could cry out, it would shriek Like a bird, a crane Penetrated by a hunter’s arrow. She takes a crane and breaks Its wing. […]
Emma J. Gibbon – Medical Museum Midnight Raid
Medical Museum Midnight Raid I will smash the glass and liberate the specimens. The suicides, the murderers, the gypsies and the poor, I will stash your skulls in my loot sack. The leathery feet and the hair bezoars and the shrunken heads, the lungs injected with ink, the cysts and bladder stones, the slices of […]
Alan Ira Gordon – From Whence the Songbird Sings
From Whence the Songbird Sings She told me one dark evening, how on her native world she stood waist-deep in a ruby river while lightning chirped across an orange sky. I fought back tears that sprang to life from the look on her face as she longed for home. But in the glare of next […]
F.J. Bergmann – Appropriate Tools
Appropriate Tools … a man opens a wooden crate with the help of a bird … —J.M. Coetzee, “Speaking in Tongues,” The Australian, 23 February 2006 He wanted to see what was inside his head, but his workshop had been rifled by his disaffected spawn, and all that was left him in the way of […]
Logan Wei – golem
golem I. it’s time to make a golem i’ll get a lot of clay and start with the head “obovoid, appreciably” the manual will say i will look the words up just to be careful it is important in important things to avoid mistakes then the eyes my bright marbles in thumbed-in sockets “for best […]
