Benjamin Hertwig – for the rat behind the fridge
for the rat behind the fridge In October, the first of the oak leaves chokes out the last of the arugula. It rains every day. There is a dead rat in the basement, a live rat in the kitchen. It jumps off the stove when I open the door. It’s hiding behind the fridge, longer […]
Alisa Golden – The Burn Zone
The Burn Zone Under the bedspring skeletons where the cleanup crew looks for bodies, lies a metal arcade token, a coin, the kind you’d personalize with the names of you and your lover. This is not a film. This is the news, and that’s all one couple has left. Alisa Golden […]
George Franklin – Reverie
Reverie Inside a dream, there’s no description, No painter with bright oils and canvas Surveying a shoreline of mangroves And mosquitoes. There’s no one to whom The dream happens. The face that stares back From the mirror has not been born. If There’s a beach here, no one’s ever stretched Naked on its sand, listening […]
Alissa Elliot – Knife Skills: an Elegy
Knife Skills: an Elegy It’s obviously about the onions, you read from the Les Halles cookbook I brought to your place from the city late that fall. Don’t hold your hand like this, never like this. I trusted him because he smirked like you, and knew the only trick: how not to mind the hurt, […]
Marsha de la O – Crevasse
Crevasse I no longer believe in Tierra del Fuego. We’ll probably never arrive. Already I’m gray as granite, and know well how to lower my head, how to lock my tongue with my teeth. I will need four legs and sharp hooves now. I will need a long, strong spine and the ability to trudge. […]
