I Would Like To Step Out Of My Heart And Go Walking Beneath The Enormous Sky by Jeff Whitney Where did my life go? Jimmy Stewart asks in It’s A Wonderful Lifeand he gets more than he bargained for, a big time unmistakableblast that can’t be explained. Hello, sister....
How I Learned to Translate Shadows by Joshua Zeitler after Shivani Mehta I was born with a book for a body. I think there’s been a mistake, my mother said, refusing to hold me despite the appealing firmness of my spine. I was a clothbound hardcover, the...
The Landscape Persists + Letter to E, Corvallis by Natalie Eleanor Patterson The Landscape Persists Hannah drives me to Salem for the first timein ten months exactly. Last time I was on this highway I had someone else’s hand in mine& my own spit limning my hair...
Huitain for Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec by Lizzy Ke Polishan Lizzy Ke Polishan Lizzy Ke Polishan is a poet from Pennsylvania. Her recent work appears in Gulf Coast, The Greensboro Review, RHINO, The Penn Review, and PRISM International, among others. She is a poetry...
So You’re Fluent by Lauren Mallett They ask meThey ask me to prove itThey ask me where I learnedThey ask me but not at home In this house hereBuilt by sea, hand, ropeI dreamed up myself in two languagesMy houseWhere there stops by no inspectorNo money to be...
Smile-5 by Nicholas Brasco I meet McMurphy at the Boom Lift, the one parked next to Building A, at 6:35 a.m. Management’s instructions. We shake hands in greeting, and his big mitt is all rough and chapped, just like his face, leaving my fingers feeling crushed. He...
