Stefan Lovasik – Primal
Primal we are prey to our oblivion you or me in a blast of phosphorous and orange orchids and birds fall as fire washes the green and we see skin burn to grimace stretch across black teeth and know that flame will always sing your fear and mine vein the leaves and grass as i […]
Judith Janoo – The Edge of the Gorge
The Edge of the Gorge Man is by nature a political animal —Aristotle Canyons between us we can’t understand. Tell me stranger at this political divide, what thresholds you failed to cross, what you lost, that there’s more than nothing between us. Freedom of thought, soft as lambs-ear, cashmere, fragrant as thyme-walked ground. Somewhere between […]
Andrea Hollander – Scorpion
Scorpion One afternoon when I was ten and almost home from school, I glanced up at the second-story window of a house on my block to see the acned older brother of one of my friends. He had tapped, then knocked so I’d see him framed there, the blinds lifted, the sun a spotlight on […]
Benjamin Hertwig – for the rat behind the fridge
for the rat behind the fridge In October, the first of the oak leaves chokes out the last of the arugula. It rains every day. There is a dead rat in the basement, a live rat in the kitchen. It jumps off the stove when I open the door. It’s hiding behind the fridge, longer […]
Alisa Golden – The Burn Zone
The Burn Zone Under the bedspring skeletons where the cleanup crew looks for bodies, lies a metal arcade token, a coin, the kind you’d personalize with the names of you and your lover. This is not a film. This is the news, and that’s all one couple has left. Alisa Golden […]
