Jeanne Wagner – Schrödinger’s Cat
Schrödinger’s Cat In the thought experiment, a hypothetical cat may be considered simultaneously both alive and dead only while it is unobserved in a closed box. ―Wikipedia I think of him, wrapped in his striped-orange fur, warm and comfy in his box right before we open it and gaze down. Killing him softly as the […]
Kim Addonizio – Compassion Problem
Compassion Problem By season two of The Walking Dead I’ve almost grown immune to corpses staggering along a road or through the woods drawn by gunshots, bells, some music, like old dolls leaking dust only blood spews out if you cut or stab or aim a car through them, you might pull at one & […]
Amanda J. Bradley – Making It Right
Making It Right I heard your horizon promises, took the risk, left my husband that long May – your call, my response now inked in poems and songs, relics of a star-swept history. It is not history like army squadrons warring or marching homeward, charcoal shadows backlit by pinkish sky. Or maybe it is. Perhaps […]
Heidi Seaborn – C Is for Cruelty
C is for Cruelty Almost daily, my sisters and I terrorized our too beautiful baby brother. One summer night, we chased him off a dock. Such a small splash in the darkness, his moonface bobbing. Perhaps that evening was the turning point when we went too far. After, our cruelty to one another reduced to […]
Zachariah Claypole White – Postcards to the Angel [unmailed]
Postcards to the Angel [unmailed] Last night someone spiked my drink and [just say it] I woke up in a hospital bed, all these pointless poems bleeding from two fingers. Snow has covered and cleaned vomit from the steps; there are footprints in the ice, blood on my door. We always return to violence, don’t […]
