Diana Chien – Too Fast
Too Fast Dusk fell too fast for me to appreciate the half-light, the trees growing in darkness. Sweet-sour smell of rain-wet earth. Grass a little too long. Golden pricking of pine needles sewing in and out of the dark pelt. I have grown taller since I first knew this place. But the trees outpace me, […]
Laure-Anne Bosselaar – Dusk
Dusk is music tonight — it loiters in long shadows, its notes dim the street, star the sky — even the mockingbird’s call is all melancholy. I stand outside the kitchen in a wistful disposition too — it’s the death of a day, after all. Yet, while time takes its time to steal the […]
Fleur Beaupert – When he said he wanted to call me a race
When he said he wanted to call me a race my knotted answer was not facetious it was throat | silhouette forbidden escape the intruders suggested i write about gender instead of race, race instead of madness madness instead of Blackness (when he said he wanted to call me a race he accelerated the construction […]
Pamela Wax – Upon reading that Superhero Rocket Raccoon was inspired by the Beatles song, I think
about the masked bandit that has been pillaging my garden sometime in the pre-dawn hours when I’m not there to guard it, gnawing wedges from the zucchini, and leaving half-eaten tomatoes in the bed as compost. He’s a menace to the neighborhood, and I can’t get rid of him, despite the trap and the light […]
Richard Peabody – The Queen of American Gothic
The Queen of American Gothic is waiting “I’m ready,” she says as lonely as the only car in a bowling alley parking lot Born in Washington, DC, raised in Bethesda, and now living in Arlington, VA, poet, writer, editor, teacher, and publisher Richard Peabody wears many literary hats. He taught fiction […]
