kerry rawlinson – feed me
feed me whatever fables you have on hand: leviticus leaves/ grimm tails/ fish stories/ five loaves three minnows/ disney dough/ koranges/ scrips & scraps of treaties. lawyerly lingo/ livers of sozzled lovers/ tibias of dropped toddlers. fill me with whatever will partially kill me. still my heartspeed. bury war wonton down my throat. choke my […]
Alexis Rhone Fancher – On Fire
On Fire “Nothing good happens after midnight.” — Joe Kenda Singed. The moon, smudged against the night. A bonfire at Venice Beach. Tangerine flames torch the dark. You lick me. When I come, you pull away. Next morning: A note slipped under your door. No one escapes unscathed. You think I mean kindling. Over cocktails: […]
Dane Cervine – Second Thoughts on the Spiritual Path
Second Thoughts on the Spiritual Path Beautiful wasp zombifies cockroach… —YouTube video If one loves Brahman with steadfast devotion, one becomes Brahman. By thinking of nothing but the wasp, the cockroach is changed into a wasp. —Sankaracharya While reading The Asian Journals of Thomas Merton— a Catholic monk delving into the mysteries of India— I […]
Martha Silano – What I Wished For
What I Wished For Me, as a flag iris. A.k.a., wild. Me, spending a year with my father’s yellowing files, his yellowing eyes. Me, in a bog. Me, with some of me gone. Me, beside Coreopsis, beside clouds. The me of remember, of my uncle’s clarinet, notes coasting toward Bleeding Hearts. Me, passing from now […]
Maureen Sherbondy – The Article
The Article My father carried in his billfold an article about the shelf life of bypasses. This cold heart he revealed to us daily. He wanted to know when inky blood would stop flowing: that end-of-the-road spot on a map. I’m living on borrowed time his mantra for twenty-two years, hoping we’d love him for […]
