James Robinson – Halloween in New Orleans
Halloween in New Orleans Crippled oaks hunch beneath a yellow moon and hover over crumbling crypts in Lafayette Cemetery where F. Scott Fitzgerald’s eyes gaze beyond paradise from a window’s wavy glass on a second floor across Prytania. Empty streetcars rumble down Saint Charles where widowed ghosts wander in mansions behind the dark windows of […]
Jennifer Crow – Across a Storm-Dark Sky
Across a Storm-Dark Sky You saw a dragon, etched like fire and arcing across a storm-dark sky. You saw a dragon, and your heart lurched in your chest, stumbled like a drunk, dipped and rose the way birds do, startled from their nests at sunrise. When you blinked, the shadow cast by its light seared […]
Sarah Shirley – Think Tank
Think Tank Come closer, don’t be shy, and here she is – what do you think? I know it’s strange, her floating there in all that liquid, hair fanning and swirling, but it keeps her fresh and ready. We grew her from a client who didn’t approve of the final dimensions so we made another […]
David Olsen – Petri Dish
Petri Dish Nutrients abound in a Petri dish. A few introduced microbes multiply by dividing. Thriving in ideal ambience, numbers rise by powers of two, spread across available space. Growth reaches the edge, but still organisms pile up, each stratum striving to survive, all individuals competing for dwindling resources. Meanwhile, excreted waste accumulates where there’s […]
John Reinhart – The Butterflies of Traxl IV
The Butterflies of Traxl IV Traxl IV – known primarily for its chlorinated sea breezes & an outcropping shaped naturally into the exquisitely perfect contours of the legendary Terran Butterfly, as near anyway to the common illustrations still found in children’s storybooks – once suffered a twist of economical fate no invisible hand could muster […]
