Cliff Saunders – The Small Country
The Small Country We are pleased to announce that of course we follow the sun into its sea of remembrance. These days, we scale the depths of our presidents’ gardens but not our neighborhoods. Look how far we’ve wandered off while violent playthings grow. We are a small country with upside-down trees. All in all, […]
kerry rawlinson – Ghazal for Running Away from the Circus
Ghazal for Running Away from the Circus When truth rejects speech, flee. The sentence for mute belief is steep. Risk is highwires without nets, just like belief. It’s a bestiary with no feeding tent; a lament of clowns; a sham. I’m a flying trapeze of belief. The circus breaks you. Makes you ache to see […]
Stefan Lovasik – Primal
Primal we are prey to our oblivion you or me in a blast of phosphorous and orange orchids and birds fall as fire washes the green and we see skin burn to grimace stretch across black teeth and know that flame will always sing your fear and mine vein the leaves and grass as i […]
Judith Janoo – The Edge of the Gorge
The Edge of the Gorge Man is by nature a political animal —Aristotle Canyons between us we can’t understand. Tell me stranger at this political divide, what thresholds you failed to cross, what you lost, that there’s more than nothing between us. Freedom of thought, soft as lambs-ear, cashmere, fragrant as thyme-walked ground. Somewhere between […]
Andrea Hollander – Scorpion
Scorpion One afternoon when I was ten and almost home from school, I glanced up at the second-story window of a house on my block to see the acned older brother of one of my friends. He had tapped, then knocked so I’d see him framed there, the blinds lifted, the sun a spotlight on […]
