and bandy-legged, I passed time
among hills and hay, swam in dirty
pools. The summer skies were green-
eyed, the color of witches and grassy
cow pies. I was greedy for...
Jacqueline Doyle Manka curled up on her white linen couch with a glass of Pinot Noir and opened the new New Yorker to the fiction page. On the left there was an illustration of a snowy...
The word “benign” has several meanings. It can mean kindly or harmless. Or gentle – which is nice. I thought it also meant “sitting around doing nothing,” but this incorrect.
If you are...
I was several blocks away, kicking a soccer ball against a cinder block wall. In the hospital that evening I stood alone in the fluorescent hall. I didn't believe a bit of it. Was Gawk in the room...
Do not make bones at me // I are soonly calcified // I are knowing
of death and of burial // making your spells // into mush words
remember how to incant this // I are not black in my father's...
This is red rock sensibility: Laura picks feathers
out of her hair and whispers, He loves me. He loves me
not. Too much time is spent twisting spanners – a clock
can be wound and rewound, but...
Featuring writing by Kati Fargo, John Blair, Kurtis Davidson, Phong Nguyen, M.D. Baumgartner, Angus Bennett, Eliza Rotterman, Karen Anderson, Martin Corless-Smith, J. Michael Martinez, James...
Featuring work by Connie Deanovich, Michael Palmer, Peter Gizzi, Mark Wallace, Buck Downs, Jen Coleman, Betsy Andrews, Douglas Messerlie & Joe Ross, C.E. Putnam, Chriss Stroffolino, Jeff Derksen,...
The thought passed through my mind that I was sitting with ‘Eve,’ a petite, attractive, open woman who had endured the obvious conflicts of a life with not just one personality, or even three as...
