Zixiang Zhang – rock art in the nevadan dunes
rock art in the nevadan dunes i. on the day before more rain, an olivine stag appears in my dream. two prongs, pinnate arms, ermines from the magnetic king’s pen covering his mane & lumbar broad-beams i’ve ridden on, returning now more bowstrung & with seasoning. drums of the ponderosas whine, sages drop spines, cover […]
Bryan D. Price – Exiled from the family of man
Exiled from the family of man he sees something maybe it’s a painting maybe it’s a poem or a bird or just a dream maybe it’s the thing that will one day come out of the clouds to kill him he sees it clearly at first and then as if through stained glass and then […]
Toni Scales – A Haunting
A Haunting We feed the ghosts with fettuccine and fire extinguishers. Watch as they bend backwards and crawl towards us. Through musty windows the light fails. We set fires to the etiquette books. Don’t brush our teeth for days, the scent of us feral and dreamlike. All night the dresses burn. Mother’s face haloed as […]
Alexis Rhone Fancher – A Nickel For Every Time
A Nickel For Every Time December, again. Bare trees scarecrow the woods. The crunch of leaves underfoot reminds me of those jawbreakers she used to mouth, cracking at them with her back teeth until a molar broke. She’s stubborn like that. Check out her eyes when she’s not getting her way; there’s a storm brewing. […]
George Witte – Dead Nails
Dead Nails “Recently, archaeologists excavated an unusual set of talismanic nails from a mountaintop necropolis on the outskirts of Sagalassos in southwestern Turkey.” –The New York Times They burn, then brick him in the pit, tiles blackened by still-livid coals, too powerful to risk escape. Slake lime and slather crevices against his posthumous return. From […]
