Table of Contents Poetry Mike Rumfelt, “Medie Marion Beauty Ivy” Bonnie Hoverman, “Prayer of the Farmer’s Wife” Barbara Inman, “Two Poems” Margaret Gibson,...
Table of Contents Fiction J. Patrick Lewis, “Running Swine” Jeanne McDonald, “Family Man” Jonathan Bowen, “Harbor” John L.F. Hopkins, “Recollection”...
Table of Contents Poetry Greg Grummer Contest judged by Charles Wright, winner: Sonya Posmentier, “Mumtaz on the Death of her Daughter” Greg Grummer Contest judged by Charles Wright,...
Featuring work by Alison Cobb, S. Kort, Simon Perchik, Brian Young, Nick Lawrence, Douglas A. Powell, Graham Foust, David Baratier, Michael Robbins, Kathleen McGookey, Wendy S. Walters, Emily Lloyd,...
Careful, there’s little difference between the woody surface and the edible veins of the sugarcane. Carve the skin first to reveal the sweet blood that hums in your mouth until you’re chewing the...
“My brother is dying,” my mother tells me over the phone, her voice spilling down the line, a thin stream of water over the lip of a dam. My mother says the word dying like it’s a question. As...
“how liminally can the lyric exist,” I asked the wilderness
& the wilderness just blinked. so I exited, stage-left, & offered
only my agreeing with green: explosions of caricature
I...
A mouth knows shapes for certain dying.
Says lunulas grey-bluing
like whites unseparated on
laundry day.
Murmurs knees
violaceous mottling, plum over
stone of cartilage and bone....
I reconsider the sea. How uncomfortable it makes me
that water might decide what breathes & doesn't
breathe. How the shape of
water hides its cruelty. Unleashed,...
