John Tumlin – Mac Watson’s Last Testament
Mac Watson’s Last Testament Recording found in a pressure suit This bottle’s almost gone, but I don’t think I’d trade it for ten sippers full of air that starve your blood unless you poke along. Your time runs out no matter what the charge, and I don’t give a damn for time as such. I’ve […]
Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong – self portrait in vivo
self portrait in vivo grass spills into sunlight the innermost tongue of an orchid splays in wild repose water opens to light what to reflect what to let pass if you don’t see this rainbow come around look from the angle of my eyes if you approach me like sunlight I could be […]
Jessica Yuan – Origin Point
Origin Point In the naturalist’s study each shelf is preserved as he kept it, a row of bird feathers, fish skeletons, a severed hand tied at the stump with lace doily and ribbon, red-spined seashells, skulls of lesser humans, a hydrocephalic fetus, pinecones, iridescent beetles, a yellow lump of skin pushing formaldehyde to the top […]
Aaron White – caged school buses in Kankakee
caged school buses in Kankakee alarm clock on the carpet where my dresser used to be. if I’ve learned anything it’s that books can’t teach me. you are the capstone course of my formative years. I’m educated in: • Your embrace • Whiskey eyes • Birdless banter this I’ll remember as I run from home […]
Stephen Toskar – Repaying an Immigrant for Teaching Me How to Steal, Long Island, May 1955
Repaying an Immigrant for Teaching Me How to Steal, Long Island, May 1955 Fannie tried to teach me how to steal spring, but it’s taken years to get the knack. First I had to imagine a 6-year-old refugee with a rag doll disembarking circa 1892 in New York after weeks of skulking across Europe—after months […]
