Romana Iorga – Golem
Golem I look up from the page and notice my shadow watching me. Lately, she has been sulking in corners, morose as a teenager who finally realized just how embarrassing I have been all her life. She cannot wait to leave home. Soon, I tell her and light a thousand candles. Soon, as I fill […]
Dane Cervine – Wisdom Template
Wisdom Template The older Tibetans draw a stenciled mandala— a simple outline, light blue— hand each page to a young man who, in a long room filled with light from open windows, arranges a palette of brilliant pigment, filigreed brushes, sits for hours on a pillow or low wood bench to trace and fill the […]
Amanda J. Bradley – Escape Artist
Escape Artist I scan the forest floor – lush, green – for coyotes and bobcats. The shadow of a hawk’s widespread wings graces my view. I am trying to get used to discomfort. Someone I love dearly wants me to. It is also the right thing. It is the only path to fearlessness. I am […]
Craig Beaven – Speech, Therapy
Speech, Therapy While we’re working to change his R sounds the stuttering weirdly increases. We thought Rs would right themselves. The work for me is to stop counting, and stop flinching at snakes that aren’t there, that slither past in the corner of my eye and I startle and turn. The pier’s beard was weird. […]
Laure-Anne Bosselaar – Complaint About Missing Friends after Eight Months of the Pandemic
Complaint About Missing Friends after Eight Months of the Pandemic No one near to see or hear me but the dog, who sighs when I say serious things & I’m dead serious when I tell her how her gray muzzle is softer than Samarkand silk. No one to tell I just read that on hot […]
