Accumulation by Megan Snyder-Camp Accumulation Two months after she leftwe drove to a cliff by the highway and broke rocks openat the shaded table. A volunteer showed ushow to pry the rocks apart like books,like a baby does to books, exposing one protected moment in...
Jolene at 33¹ by Brian Clifton The Unborn We gave the unborn tripodsto recline in. They lean back slicked with amniotic fluid. The unborn tell us exactly what to value. The legislators lean in close, decipher. They pay...
Sinter by Arah Ko I didn’t knowI was angry until lightning pulverized the stream and I feltnothing. No quiver at the flashbulbnaked river rocks water leapt awayfrom like a cutdown dress, red sea peeledalong its sandy floor. No tremblingfear at static vapor only a...
Cain by Christine Byrne Beekeep: unbekept – We were married in our twenties – Nobodies – I outlined myself – In the palm of your good hand – My marked stigmata – Like another room for waiting – For the simplicity – However unordinary – To keeping bees – To what’s...
Lesson Plan by Adam Tavel Lesson Plan after Joseph Wright’s The Corinthian Maid, c. 1782 – 1784 Who remembers our discussion of myth from yesterday? we lied and said the world began with light In Wright’s composition, what...
Landscape With User Instructions by Jennifer Bullis Jennifer Bullis Jennifer Bullis is the author of the chapbook Impossible Lessons (MoonPath Press) and of poems & essays appearing in Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Terrain.org, and Water~Stone Review. She writes...
