Mack Mani – The Ghost of Sigma Chi
The Ghost of Sigma Chi They say I was a Chi O girl or a 1950s haze-gone-wrong, an OD or a suicide and there was one sweetheart who swore up and down that I was her aunt, slaughtered by Ted Bundy in the summer of ’76. I polish off the empties and give the freshman […]
Denise Dumars – Mars Must Remember
Mars Must Remember Ice cubes clink in the red warrior’s drink and he gazes fondly toward his iron planet, a scarred and winded desert of a land. You remind us that all politics are local politics, that peace depends upon a show of strength. Then why the desolate landscape? Is the face of Mars really […]
C.L. Nehmer – First Crime Scene Photos, 1888
First Crime Scene Photos, 1888 They’re eerie, these black and whites, camouflaging the cryptic message of a disemboweled corpse. Eyelashes like a lamb, did she enter the pub where he communed at the bar, forge a quick and dirty deal, a pulling out from the pub to survey a cathedral dome sky over London’s East […]
George Franklin – Origami
Origami She takes a sheet of white paper And breaks it in a knife-sharp fold. The edge could draw blood. She takes an edge, cracking The ribs of paper. If paper Could cry out, it would shriek Like a bird, a crane Penetrated by a hunter’s arrow. She takes a crane and breaks Its wing. […]
Emma J. Gibbon – Medical Museum Midnight Raid
Medical Museum Midnight Raid I will smash the glass and liberate the specimens. The suicides, the murderers, the gypsies and the poor, I will stash your skulls in my loot sack. The leathery feet and the hair bezoars and the shrunken heads, the lungs injected with ink, the cysts and bladder stones, the slices of […]
