Emma Trelles – I Have Been Dreaming of a Time Machine
I Have Been Dreaming of a Time Machine To come and come in the abandoned garden skin vines a way of beginning to stay up all night with you again young and blind to the spectacular death of each minute how something has bitten the persimmons while we rolled […]
Rafael Jesús González – Terafines/Teraphim
Terafines Son abandonados, enterrados, tirados entre tiestos. Y nosotros, desterrados del espíritu, alma-velas agitadas y enmarañadas en las adujas de nuestro hablar, el pensar un trapecio embrollado, colgamos en el espacio. Esperan nuestro regreso o nuestra caída — rechonchos, sólidos, graves, formados de la tierra. Teraphim They are abandoned, buried, lying […]
Jim Natal – Étude in the Form of a Crow
Étude in the Form of a Crow Crows punctuate my life pierce slice swoop dive origami folded enter my dreams disrupt subvert from within cardinals magpies jays the whole extended corvid clan anthracite feathers rouge feathers blue-speckled and barred camouflaged by pinons junipers madronas more cousins than my wife’s family the few I have I […]
Seif-Eldeine – Yara’s Grandfather’s Garden
Yara’s Grandfather’s Garden Yara knows the type of weapon being used from its sound. She paints the flowers she remembers in her grandfather’s garden: lilacs pecked at by hummingbirds like dead bodies are pecked at by jackals, red roses like the soldier who coughs up blood from the smoke in the scorched wheat fields of […]
Dorothy Neagle – The Snakebite Cure
The Snakebite Cure Maybe I’ll forgive her out of tiredness. I’ll give out and she’ll pick me off the ground. Oh, happiness. Put me inside the trunk of a tree, her treasure. Forget I’m there. Forget I forgave. I’ll forget. My forgiveness will turn to rage. Down from a tree the […]
