In A Strange Room
In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut is a novel in three parts. Or rather, a book in three parts. The novel part is debatable. Why? Because each of the three...
The Velvet Queen in Sternum
Tandem visions of our chests in waves of bone. I find myself aware of the bones in my ribs, the bones in my sternum. When I lose and gain weight, I...
What is Left is What Matters
A review of Salvage the Bones, by Jesmyn Ward. What is at stake for this family comes starkly to the fore of this intimate and brutal narrative set in Bois...
Letters to my Daughters
...Every plum has a past.
When you puncture the skin, you don’t think
of where it’s been, but how it tastes....
Can-Picking
We heave creaking Hefty bags over our backs. Bags the size of baby elephants, singed water heaters, stopped engine blocks worth only scrap....
what happens when you watch jaws backwards
Outside the window
the freeway threw up enough cars
that they had to open a parking lot. People died
by the truckload...
epitaphs #5, #19, #40
here lies a man who lost his virginity during his senior class trip to Grand Bahama Island but thanks to the storms that had gone before them their...
Take Something Ugly
A window gave back the sky, but the window itself wasn’t ugly, just the building it was in. She saw the sun glinting off a piece of broken glass, turning...
Weird Acrylics
Sassi makes his acrylics using both positive and negative homemade stencils along with found tiny objects like nuts, bolts, rings, clips, circlips, washers,...
A Bridge and a Bouquet
I wasn’t even sixteen yet, and I could see my mother’s expression of ‘my daughter is getting older’. I didn’t know whether to shift my...