Ja’net Danielo – Danielo Home Movies [I think now of the dollhouse]
Danielo Home Movies [I think now of the dollhouse] I think now of the dollhouse, its rooftop– green-shingled, scalloped. I didn’t care much for the dolls. I just wanted to open & close a diecast dresser’s white drawers, run my fingers over painted-pink flowers. Oh, to sit, silent, by the red plastic fireplace & think, […]
Beth Suter – Crucible
Crucible The candle didn’t ignite the nightstand. There was no housefire. It’s not like burning. Grandma never picked the wrong mushrooms or mistook hemlock for dandelion. It’s not like poison. No one was smote by the lord or turned to a pillar of salt. It’s not like lightning. The whiskey wasn’t useless— the window wouldn’t […]
Richard Magahiz – Flat. Distant. Blue.
Flat. Distant. Blue. There were parallel deep gouges in the bark of a red maple. She had lip gloss rolled up in a sleeve of her shirt as though it were a pack of cigarettes. The way they played table tennis was more competitive than necessary. Was he old enough or should she wait for […]
Sara Burant – Four laundromat sonnets
Four laundromat sonnets You talking to me? I say in my head, channeling a Travis-Bickle- without-the-gun attitude, trying it on like clothes you don’t have to wash because it’s always raining. There’s no one else here so that man must be talking to the dryers: Doin’ ok? About done? Someone I loved yelled when I […]
Cecilia Woloch – The Creek
The Creek It was where my teenaged sister rinsed her baby’s diapers — in the creek. What my brothers threw the dog into when the dog started to stink. It was where my niece caught fish — catched fishes — with her hands. It was ice in winter, slide, the lace of branches overhead. And […]
