Maren O. Mitchell – Camouflage Addict
Camouflage Addict Every six months since I was fifteen, I’ve assumed a different color hair. Born a brunette, I began with black, a statement to expand into everything or nothingness, each strand straight, thick and serious—the cut, blunt. My eyes darkened to match. I didn’t crack a smile. Next, charcoal grey, graphite that wrote itself […]
Judson Evans – Palimpsest
Palimpsest I smell the time travel in your hair. The all fall down consternation catches in the zipper of your sweater. Call it chrysanthemum snow, a simultaneous Scranton unknown to you. Two guys walk into an alley where a prostitute has bitten her pimp so deeply they make someone call an ambulance. The afternoon light […]
Lev Mirov – The Doorway
The Doorway The water is cold, up to my neck. Like Virginia, my pockets are full of black stones. I bend my knees, and I am six again; holding my breath in the swimming pool to see how long I last, staring up at the upside down world underneath water the sky as green as […]
S.Marie LaFata-Clay – Animal Lisa’s Guide to Getting Sober
Animal Lisa’s Guide to Getting Sober Write it down & pretend it is fiction. Read it to a campfire from a safe distance like my father the urban legend last seen on a night much like this as a kerosene soaked match humming against an oil drum beating my mother with his skull because matches […]
Emily Linstrom – Only Aria
Only Aria The night he died I dreamed of Baroque cathedrals, a heaven within and outside the universe, infinite and appalling, as if all we contained was not meant for a heaven, even if the bedding is nice. Forgive me, I didn’t know how not to be an enigma prowling about the house like a […]
