Tony Gloeggler – New School Old School
New School Old School A Sunday barbecue at my brother’s, and my mom is reading my niece’s report card out loud. The words bright, generous, creative, inquisitive, sensitive, mingle with the smoky aroma. Hungry, I’d just give her a B+ so we can start to please pass the ribs. She’s smart, funny, cool, knows her […]
Sara Backer – History
History Hi, story! His story. His store. Hissed. Hissed or missed. Mist story, mystery. My story? Stories of stories stored in the story store. H. Aitch. Ache. Ache + I = story. Aye. Eye to my eye. I as in is. (Ms, not his.) Who tore the story? Y? Thorny, hissy. Restore the story. His. […]
Leonard Gontarek – About the Great Trees
About The Great Trees I write about the great trees. That is, the sea of leaves, a coming darkness, rising past the windows. I understand I may not understand. Not everyone does. I accept it like a train without an open seat moving past mountains, coated with purple talc, […]
Jonce – On Fake Photographs Claiming That We Are the Virus
On Fake Photographs Claiming That We Are the Virus “Venice hasn’t seen clear canal water in a very long time. Dolphins showing up too. Nature just hit the reset button on us.” —Twitter User @Lukalashx There’s a part of me that finds this compelling, even though it’s fake. Even when I was in Venice, watching […]
Mary Birnbaum – And a Plague of Frogs
And a Plague of Frogs I am waiting for the drums of August, the riptides, the mad funnels, the gas-blue flame over the city’s complacent haze, people wading chest deep in turbulence, the trial and sentence of hailstones, torrents. There’s no chaste-gowned hymn for mercy. Power struts in every eyeful. No counter-arguments heard. No incantations. […]
