Gilbert Allen – Cross Dressers
Cross Dressers God only knew why they’d sought out his church for the detritus of their Saturdays. As pastor, he was always first one there on Sunday mornings. Lately he’d been parking in the bleak darkness just before the dawn to police the symbol of the risen Christ— remove the Clemson cap, or produce bag […]
Michael Montlack – When God
When God is your brother, solitary, first born, aloof and one step ahead, able but not always willing to share his wisdom. When God is an idol under your pillow, listening, you assume, never speaking, though you sometimes swear there’s a whisper clear as the strum of a Sunday night busker, his well-worn guitar like […]
Chante Wolf – The Forgotten Girls
The Forgotten Girls the orphan children surrounded me clay prisoners of solitary their cracked fingers in my yellow hair gripped my hands as if they held their lost families’ photographs that laid broken by their tilted dressers the bravest touched my camera begged in broken English to release the body into her hands I let […]
Erin Wilson – A Darkness of Nectar
A Darkness of Nectar My macro lens seems right for the job. I am trying to determine what a sunflower is. “Sun” flower, a source of light? I go to move an inflorescence, one of the heads, and am made shy, humble, by the weight of it. No matter where I focus, not enough. The […]
Chad Weeden – Freezer Burn
Freezer Burn I pull in late. Ripe with the day’s brine. Shuffle up the steps. Melodies of traffic like wannabe ballads still drumming in my ears, stale as the aimless motion, always rushing to this from that, always something as we go: a hole in a bag, tidal waves, rifling for keys in the other […]
