Tag: 42.2

Arg*OS

Joe Pan   Odysseus Teaches One of His New Dogs to Say ‘I Love You’   Arrrr! O, arrrr! O, raw scar! How you ore our iron ire, ogre of Troy. Ere your errors, our ears were ewes wanting of...

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The Foot

Ryan Habermeyer Winner, Fiction Contest   A foot had been uncovered from a sandbar the night after the solstice. Nobody was sure how long it had suffered there in anonymity as it had been found...

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Villagers Chop Them in Half, Thinking They Are Snakes

Annie Christain Winner, Greg Grummer Poetry Award   "Come not between the Dragon and his wrath..." King Lear. Act I, Sc 2 "He thought the Beatles were witches flying on broomsticks from hell." –...

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The Last Séance

Deborah Thompson Winner, Nonfiction Contest   I wrote down memories, detail upon detail, with shamanistic obsessiveness, before they slipped away, before he slipped away. I wasn’t trying to...

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SLIP

Sarah Cook   music is just miles but longer the motion of a hand & another hand on a train the body constantly simulates theft the sound of which extends this plane beyond grip...

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Happy Thanksgiving

George Morgan Scott   Unnoticed by the prattling guests, little Toby, twitching with the terrible twos, climbs up on the stuffed chair, totters, catches his balance, reaches for the security...

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Great Blue

Emily Rinkema   I wake up because my father is at the door. “Want to go fishing?” he whispers, and I know it must be too early for school, too early to be waking up. The light in the hall is...

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Preconceptions, or Frontiers

Jacqueline Kolosov   After two years of trying, my husband Tom and I began to seriously consider reproductive technologies to conceive a second child. “Do you think I could love another child...

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Squalls

Maggie Millner  Second Prize Winner, Greg Grummer Poetry Award   During the storm, the culverts we crawl into are the size of silos. The ropeswing is hanging off the willow in the wind. It...

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Plaza San Juan

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.  His...

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