Tanya L. Young – Two Foxes
Two Foxes I’ll carry your loss in my purse pouch, rattling like half cut emeralds, like twins in the womb that can’t rotate at the axis, can’t turn all the way around. I’ll hunt the desert clay for two wrestling foxes, flossing side by side in wild red dust. In the canyon. Did you pack […]
Luke Johnson – Dark
Dark – for Malakai If you come to where the thorny pears grow along the one-way road and crouch beneath the sticky shade that draws out spiders and wasps and children playing chase in the dying light, you’ll witness, if lucky, the buck my father failed to shoot sip from fading streams, and freeze when […]
Douglas Cole – Riding out the Night Listening to Comedians
Riding out the Night Listening to Comedians Back then, college was more like theater, the professors were actors: some temperamental, some aspiring, some adroit and calm, some boring, some psychopathic…not sandpapered, dull whip-children of doctrine but minds that blazed. End of Christendom. Stay away from diseased animals. A fire up ahead. Strangers, strange languages, songs, […]
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: […]
