Lola Haskins’ Homelight, Reviewed by Lee Rossi
Homelight Lola Haskins Charlotte Lit Press Reviewer: Lee Rossi Lola Haskins, who has published 14 books of poetry as well as 3 prose volumes, is a poet whose left brain is quite as active as her right. (Haskins, you should know, taught computer science for three decades at the University of Florida.) Not long ago, […]
Molly Fisk – The Goodbye
The Goodbye What to do with my hands — her fingers curved to hold mine but not holding, taking the shape of a loose grip, in repose, outstretched on the pale blue sheet. Her eyes half-open and moving, but not furtive. As if measuring things in another realm, and she might be. Whether the new […]
Chad Weeden – Vanishing Point
Vanishing Point We dug our heels in the sand. Pelicans mobbed the surf for chum. A driftwood barge combed the horizon. Caked in salt. New year. We hadn’t said a word past Reno. Another bridge torched behind us for the hell of it. Yet there we were. Washed up. Wrapped your arms around your jagged […]
Lynne Knight – Conversion, or, Homage to Molly Bloom
Conversion, or, Homage to Molly Bloom That summer I swore to remain a virgin. I could practice wooing if I kept saying No, something I’d learned to say to the Devil, that insidiously devious monster conjured for us by the nuns, who swore our chastity was a gift beyond measure. So why not prolong it, […]
Danusha Laméris – Today the Pleasures
Today the Pleasures Today the pleasures are too numerous to name. Walking over the bridge and up the drive to get the mail, then setting down the packages to open by the front door, a fat swath of sun falling against my arm as I open a box of two slim volumes of poems, then […]
