Camille Carter – Havre
Havre Mixed-blood’s dark recitatives carve out arterial walls I refuse to be removed Once sounded out at sundown words will fly away from you a tongue is like a ghost I refuse to be removed There where someone else’s daughter stands cradling the credo beneath her swollen breast I refuse to be removed O echo […]
Connie Post – Fallen
Fallen I punched an angel in the face last night I punched her so hard she had to lie on the floor with me I made her count the floorboards and listen to how they used to squeak before my father came in the room I whispered “now you know what it’s like for light […]
Peggy Dobreer – Starlight in Exile
Starlight in Exile the mother bone great pelvic girdle hammock hung from the head of the heart bone fulcrum sway rocker on its helical haunches and in the dark heart of the matter a second beat rises to its crescendo a beat beat and a breath a pump pump and a slow dissolve in to […]
Bruce Bond – Shame
Shame I go the way that Providence dictates, with the assurance of a sleepwalker. And sleep replied, if you want me, I will be in the light of the freezer with a fifth of scotch and a revolver. Which is when he resolved to take a season in the Alps, close his eyes to watch […]
Rebecca Baggett – Lost Language
Lost Language He speaks intently now, a rush of soft syllables, language of splash and shriek, the occasional word we recognize as one of ours ‒ “Cah!” (anything with wheels), “Sheeze!” (what he would eat for every meal). But mostly his tales are unintelligible, though we strain to comprehend, tilt our better ears toward him, […]
