Richard Magahiz – Flat. Distant. Blue.
Flat. Distant. Blue. There were parallel deep gouges in the bark of a red maple. She had lip gloss rolled up in a sleeve of her shirt as though it were a pack of cigarettes. The way they played table tennis was more competitive than necessary. Was he old enough or should she wait for […]
Sara Burant – Four laundromat sonnets
Four laundromat sonnets You talking to me? I say in my head, channeling a Travis-Bickle- without-the-gun attitude, trying it on like clothes you don’t have to wash because it’s always raining. There’s no one else here so that man must be talking to the dryers: Doin’ ok? About done? Someone I loved yelled when I […]
Cecilia Woloch – The Creek
The Creek It was where my teenaged sister rinsed her baby’s diapers — in the creek. What my brothers threw the dog into when the dog started to stink. It was where my niece caught fish — catched fishes — with her hands. It was ice in winter, slide, the lace of branches overhead. And […]
John Schneider – Collisions
Collisions Captive, held tight by hard metal and soft leather, an apparition in progress, pulsing red lights like someone else’s heartbeat, sirens cutting in and back out like how he once taught me to slice perfectly through a coconut’s shell to get at its meat or release everything wild within so that shiny new Christmas […]
Hayden Saunier – How It Went
How It Went Because the doe lay down to die in our field, dark bloom smudged on one flank, I kept watch over her from behind the barnyard wall as I worked and waited for the man from church who eats what he kills to arrive with his gun. I was twisting grapevines into wreaths, […]
