Abecedarian Break-Up Poem After Spending the Day Reading the Same 3 Children’s Books to Someone Else’s Baby by Sarah Brockhaus Always we’ve been Thursday. October. I’m giving up until spring,breathing only out. The sky knows, the blue skycries it at me every evening...
8 Ball Liturgy + When To Say No by Philip Schaefer 8 Ball Liturgy I replace my fingertips with olives, 10crystal balls. I voodoo around the kitchen like I’ve discovered a cure for stomachcancer. I give each globe a name: polly polyp, lung crust, see you tumorrow....
Iftar by Sascha Matuszak I walk alone through the streets listening to spoons and voices. It is iftar time, and I am racing the light down to the beach, where I hope to find my brothers. The music of spoons on dishes is a mercy from God, for without it I’d lose my...
Star Crossed by Maura Stanton The recycle center turned out to be a huge warehouse at the edge of town. As my purchaser walked with me to the office, I noticed big metal bins full of robot parts. One bin seemed to be all heads, hundreds of heads, maybe thousands, some...
Nested Skins by Ben Reed Roger and I were at the beach when the fog came in. We had just finished eating. Everyone on the sand stopped what they were doing to marvel at the density and opacity of the fog, and how quickly the white mist rolled toward us over the water....
