Dan Rosenberg – November 6, 2024
November 6, 2024 Fine, America, you found a way to grow apples with razor blades already inside them. To punch new holes through our shared lungs. I thought you were a smudged mirror, not a guillotine blade rising, rising as the crowd froths. But I’m the vole, it seems, chewing a nest of live wires. […]
Matthew E. Henry – when asked if, as a veteran teacher, I’ve gotten used to it
when asked if, as a veteran teacher, I’ve gotten used to it it says something that I no longer react to a story of a masked gunman shooting up a school or shooting up a church or shooting up a school that is a church or a church within a school or that a pew’s […]
Zachary Kluckman – Chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro I fill the water with my inky emissions. Invisible life. A heart full of shadows, like Sunday mornings. Brick alley chiaroscuros. I pretend they never find me haunting myself in rain puddles. Never splash myself with dirty water to taste myself. I stopped pressing my tongue to my wounds as a child. There’s only […]
Alexis Rhone Fancher – Orbit
Orbit “Astronomers Say Earth Has a Newly Discovered ‘Quasi-Moon,’ a Companion That Shares Its Orbit Around the Sun” – The Smithsonian Magazine, 2025 I orbit you the way the Earth does the Sun, shining in your castoff, dancing in your heat. I’ve made myself a gift to you, an homage to your body, your humor, […]
Jan Beatty – Watershed
Watershed If you come from the land of the Athabasca Glacier— where the whole valley’s cut out and you see green glacial water then pines then grey rock, snow, light tan shore with 1 ft. scrub and fireweed— you’re born with a fire inside. You’ll see Snowdome Mountain to the glacier’s right. I live in […]
