Matthew Gilbert “We resembled each other like two drops of water, but we had different reflections.” -Salvador Dali, on his brother I was making the masks for your exorcism. Working on your face...
Joe Pan After failed attempts to temper the course set upon by man in nature, following violent earthquakes & floods, the great city sank beneath the ocean waves in a single day &...
Marianne Kunkel They tease about the fact that when I was growing up… I used to fight them, but then I would be the one who would become involved with the nonviolent movement. It feels good...
Rachel Luria Anyone who is to be happy, then, must have excellent friends. —Aristotle “What is the matter with me? I will do something dreadful if I am not careful,” she thought, and...
S.Marie Clay Let us talk about the blackness of heaven and winged bats. It is the back then I am after. Even though the past is a pregnant stove burning mutton, I want it. My daughter screams,...
S.Marie Clay Your stature suggests the sleep of a museum, fifty coffins piled into a single room; waxen figures with mouths furiously cut open, hair from possum’s shield, eyes sliced from...
Anis Shivani 1. I believe in licking riot grrrl power beads. I believe in ring-around-a-rosy to move the Mensheviks’ frozen mercury. I believe, Soraya, in Roman candles whose eidetic...
Dana Diehl Three years after the pilot’s wife died, her sister flew across the Atlantic Ocean to visit America for the first time. The sister’s name was Anna. Anna, the wild, redheaded,...
Stephen Brown To view a .PDF version of this poem, click here. Stephen Brown was born in 1976. He attended the University of Waterloo in Ontario and Athabasca University in Western Canada....
Karen An-hwei Lee Bird is niao in the original Mandarin. Un oiseau avec la bicyclette jaune — The word oiseau is French for bird. Translation: A bird with a yellow bicycle....