Gail Entrekin – Waiting for my Daughter’s Baby, Week 36
Waiting for my Daughter’s Baby, Week 36 In Ljubljana, half asleep, Kate listens to the heartbeat of Matej curled beside her on the mattress in the heavy orb of her belly, like a swollen seed inside a gourd. Head down, he’s pressed against the round door to the passageway out into the loud and glaring […]
Eleanor Kedney – Arizona Black Beetles
Arizona Black Beetles Some had been stepped on, their split bodies trapped in time. Others were wounded, moving on two legs in a tilt. Most ran fast, confused by my shadow which way to turn. There were so many days of summer rain, and they came en masse for the ironwood blossoms, short-lived lives airbrushed […]
Noelle Currie – Lyman’s
Lyman’s My date with the orchard wasn’t long today A brief and condensed appointment I immersed myself in the stiff branches I greeted the empires and told them I knew them I held autumn safe in my lungs The hills were getting dressed as I pulled down the fruit from the sky hoarding memories among […]
Diana Chien – Too Fast
Too Fast Dusk fell too fast for me to appreciate the half-light, the trees growing in darkness. Sweet-sour smell of rain-wet earth. Grass a little too long. Golden pricking of pine needles sewing in and out of the dark pelt. I have grown taller since I first knew this place. But the trees outpace me, […]
Laure-Anne Bosselaar – Dusk
Dusk is music tonight — it loiters in long shadows, its notes dim the street, star the sky — even the mockingbird’s call is all melancholy. I stand outside the kitchen in a wistful disposition too — it’s the death of a day, after all. Yet, while time takes its time to steal the […]
