PacificaOnline Archive Show all 20.3 Audio/Visual Folio Poetry Prose Abecedarian Break-Up Poem After Spending the Day Reading the Same 3 Children’s Books to Someone Else’s Baby /// by Sarah BrockhausPoetry,20.3 8 Ball Liturgy + When To Say No /// by Philip SchaeferPoetry,20.3 to lamotrigine, on our 1 year anniversary + Saint Paul, Unpublished Letter, Recipient Unknown /// by Nikki UmmelPoetry,20.3 Iftar /// by Sascha MatuszakProse,20.3 Star Crossed /// by Maura StantonProse,20.3 Nested Skins /// by Ben ReedProse,20.3 Our Squid Mother /// by E. Ce MillerProse,20.3 Black Walnut Is the War Tree /// by Laura Da’Folio I Would Like To Step Out Of My Heart And Go Walking Beneath The Enormous Sky /// by Jeff WhitneyPoetry How I Learned to Translate Shadows /// by Joshua ZeitlerPoetry The Landscape Persists + Letter to E, Corvallis /// by Natalie Eleanor PattersonPoetry Huitain for Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec /// by Lizzy Ke PolishanPoetry So You’re Fluent /// by Lauren MallettPoetry Smile-5 /// by Nick BrascoProse Piedmonters /// by Mason BoylesProse Save Me /// by Laura Shaine CunninghamProse As Simple as a Wish /// by Rebecca PyleProse Spawn /// by Heather DurhamProse Blood, I Wonder (a sonnet) + Love Notes to his Dead Wife /// by Kari DespainPoetry Burdens of Mortality /// by Jeneva StonePoetry Bad Vegan /// by Dale TrumborePoetry Day Three (the first time) /// by Ann PedonePoetry Juniper /// by Dana Jaye CadmanPoetry Seven Longs /// by Denise BergmanPoetry The Grave Dowser /// by S. Frederic LissProse The Novice /// by Kathleen J. WoodsProse The King in Black /// by Emily LautchProse The Bicycle Club /// by Martin GolanProse The Pied Piper /// by Laurence KlavanProse Little Knives /// by Dara-Lyn ShragerPoetry The Drowning /// by Lindsay RockwellPoetry The Only Thing Standing Between Fantasia and Nothingness /// by Zebulon HusetPoetry Ekphrasis: “Nymphs Finding The Head Of Orpheus,” John William Waterhouse, 1901 /// by John BlairPoetry Quandaries /// by Kevin McLellanPoetry Hardware /// by Danielle ShorrPoetry White Belief /// by Uyen Phuong DangProse Sermon on the Rocks /// by Vicki NymanProse Won’t Not /// by Laura Leigh MorrisProse Turn Back the Clock, But Only for an Afternoon /// by Martha ClarksonProse 2 Poems /// by Luciana Jazmín Coronado + translated by Allison A. deFreesePoetry My Body Is A Jungle Gym /// by Polley PoerPoetry When I Announce That I’m Pregnant /// by Kindall FredricksPoetry O Ghetto Tree Our Tree Of Heaven /// by Justin Groppuso-CookPoetry Sunday Waves /// by Jose Hernandez DiazPoetry A Recipe For Disaster /// by Denise TolanProse Message From the Moths /// by Matt BriggsProse For the Jumbotron /// by Will MusgroveProse 2 Flash Fictions /// by S.S. MandaniProse All The World Isn’t Falling /// by R.S. PowersProse 3 Flash Fictions /// by Lea PageProse Marauder /// by Sara BurgePoetry Greenish Yellowish Houses /// by Jeanne MorelPoetry I call and tell my mother I’m cutting my hair + A Love Poem to Cockroaches /// by Samantha PadgettPoetry Wild /// by Anna B. SuttonPoetry Notes About the Butterflies, the Moth, and the Sadness /// by Triin PajaPoetry CLARA /// by Ann PedonePoetry A Holy Union /// by Simi MonheitProse Photosynthesis /// by Jason HardungProse Can We Be Difficult Together? /// by Anna McCarthyProse Bandrui /// by AJ StrosahlProse Topple /// by Stephen HainesProse Accumulation /// by Megan Snyder-CampPoetry Jolene at 33 /// by Brian CliftonPoetry Sinter /// by Arah KoPoetry Cain /// by Christine ByrnePoetry Lesson Plan /// by Adam TavelPoetry Landscape With User Instructions /// by Jennifer BullisPoetry Archipelago /// by Griffin Reister JohnsonProse Inheritance + Sorry /// by Ho-Ming So DenduangrudeeProse jeffrey like a giant /// by Kaija MatīssProse Hers /// by Beate SigriddaughterProse Seek Shelter Immediately /// by Jeremy GriffinProse The Kids Are Cute AF Though /// by Dan TremaglioProse Overkill /// by Megan Snyder-CampPoetry Canteen /// by Patrick HolianPoetry Intimates /// by Sarah CareyPoetry Imported: Fruit /// by Eric OdynockiPoetry Teenage Landlord /// by Philip SchaeferPoetry Peacock /// by Michael RognerPoetry The Opposite of Sin /// by Jad JoseyProse The Mermaids’ Smoke Rings /// by Becca Rose HallProse 12:12 /// by Justin Jude CarrollProse Hank the Tank /// by Tom HousemanProse Thirteen Covers /// by Erin LangnerProse The Midwinter /// by Erwin PoncePoetry Housesitting /// by Deirdre LockwoodPoetry When Will She Ever /// by Melissa StuddardPoetry Aphorism 42: If You Were As Innocent As You Pretend To Be We’d Never Get Anywhere /// by John BlairPoetry Lucifer Harps on Beauty /// by Brad CrenshawPoetry If I Drink the Violets, /// by Ronda Piszk BroatchPoetry Mother, Mother, Mother, Mother, Earth /// by Donna MiscoltaProse The Cult of Yakushima Island /// by Matthew BakerProse Past the Farallones /// by Michael ThériaultProse Like Meals, Everything Ends /// by Nina SmilowProse Eating Frogs /// by Derek OtsujiPoetry paige /// by Brenna WomerPoetry epigenetics or: the names we were given /// by nicole v bastaPoetry You are who you owe yourself to /// by Guillermo Rebollo GilPoetry arbor {before & possibly after} /// by John Sibley WilliamsPoetry 3 Poems /// by Eloise Klein HealyPoetry The Heights of Inanimate Things /// by Jane ZwartPoetry Collection /// by Meghan SterlingPoetry The Good Reverend /// by Ross McMeekinProse For Hire /// by Justin Follin SmithProse The Patron Saint of Loving Bad Men /// by Libby CopaProse Words are Made for Ministration /// by Peter GrandboisProse Shark’s Tooth /// by Nicole BeckleyProse Torn /// by Ryan PriceProse The Aliens Deliver Us From Evil /// by Michael CzyzniejewskiProse The Feejee Mermaid Falls to Earth /// by Heather DiamondProse Patroness /// by Lauren BarbatoProse A Healing /// by August EvansProse Brian the Lion Hunter /// by John Oliver HodgesProse Origin Story: Apollo Speaks /// by Esther SunPoetry Conversations with My Aunt /// by Brett ShawPoetry Before the Hard Freeze /// by Kevin McLellanPoetry Social Media /// by Emma BoldenPoetry Eric Cortez /// by Paul Hlava CeballosPoetry On Past Suicidal Ideations /// by Annie PrzypysznyPoetry Three Ghazals: an Elegy /// by Leah C ScottPoetry Omphalos : Epoch /// by Kelly WeberPoetry 214 West Euclid Ave /// by Madeline VoschProse Rift /// by Robert KostuckProse 10 Stories From The Bible In No Particular Order /// by Ian BaaskeProse A Lucky Man /// by Daniel CoshnearProse Ghost Puppy /// by Kaely HortonProse On Some Excuses For Feeling Pierced By Existence /// by Jay Aquinas ThompsonPoetry Domestic Panic /// by Michael SchmeltzerPoetry Love Construct in the Covidicene /// by Robbie GamblePoetry Sorry To Bug You, I Got Something To Say /// by Heidi SeabornPoetry The Jaguar Tattoo /// by Jose Hernandez DiazPoetry Man or Mouse /// by Sarah BokichPoetry The Cul de Sacs /// by Sarah McEachernProse The Attentions of Dangerous Men /// by Ace BoggessProse Trains /// by Caleb TankersleyProse How to Exorcise a Ghost /// by SC ParentProse Rob the Bank, Butter the Kitchen /// by Susann CokalProse Morning Traffic /// by Bret ShepardPoetry To the Plastic Bag At the Bottom of the Mariana Trench /// by Cameron Quan LouiePoetry You Ask Your Birth Mom What Her Favorite Color Is (You’ve Never Asked Me That Question) /// by Rebecca MortonPoetry Pennies From Heaven /// by Ann HudsonPoetry Essay on Identifying an Asterism /// by Tara BallardPoetry property tax /// by Savannah SlonePoetry Say /// by Lauren MallettPoetry The Mechanical Bird Writes an Ars Poetica (Dear X, -B) /// by Caroline ChavatelPoetry Another Balikbayan In Which Ma Asks Her Kids To Go To Mass With Her Pero No One Ever Does /// by Dujie TahatPoetry Mm! /// by Daniel D’AngeloPoetry Indifference + Edgewood Creek /// by Ed SkoogPoetry Boogie Town /// by Will StanierPoetry Extremes of Human Endurance /// by Rebecca ChekourasProse Lifespan of the Fathead Minnow /// by Caitlin Rae TaylorProse Elfland /// by T.S. McAdamsProse Dogs of War /// by Jason ArmentProse Feral /// by Christina Rivera CogswellProse Five Percent /// by Jesse SalvoProse The Field Party #61 /// by Darren C. DemareePoetry Fear of Abundance /// by CL YoungPoetry Brennan, /// by Matthew KilbanePoetry To speak of /// by Colette CosnerPoetry Ancestor Mirror /// by Shelby HandlerPoetry Night, and the Coffers are Empty /// by Ronda Piszk BroatchPoetry Paroxysm /// by Rebecca L. JensenProse Surrender /// by Midge RaymondProse The Making of the Third Child /// by Lisa TuiningaProse John Cena Loves Me /// by Kelly FlynnProse 2 Flash Fictions from “The Apocalypse” /// by Anastacia-ReneéProse Brown Recluse /// by Lynn HortonProse Spite House /// by Nickalus RupertProse A Brief History of the Navel Orange in California /// by Neleigh OlsonProse Queens of the Universe /// by Allison PinkertonProse Love Poem /// by Spencer WilliamsPoetry And Oedipus Answered the Sphinx: /// by Weston MorrowPoetry Indiana /// by Lauren Connell JohnsonPoetry A Doctor’s Glossary of Terms for the Female Body /// by Emma BoldenPoetry Some Might Say Grace /// by Ruth BaumannPoetry My Cheese Soufflé Has Collapsed! /// by Ruth BavettaPoetry Ode to Monday Morning Runs in Central Park /// by Alejandro PérezPoetry How Rain Appears /// by Nicholas ReinerPoetry Risk/Reward /// by Ruth WilliamsPoetry Blur /// by James Croal JacksonPoetry To Answer in the Affirmative re: Distinguishing Marks /// by Kelly R. SamuelsPoetry The Mysteries of Patio Vistahermosa /// by Pablo Piñero StillmannProse Bad Trick List /// by Alayna BeckerProse ABC /// by Beth BosworthProse Shimmer /// by Kelly Lynn ThomasProse Ouija Board /// by Brendan StephensProse The Inheritors /// by Ryan HabermeyerProse Sheepshank /// by Tim FittsProse Kissing Against Solipsism /// by Jessica Morey-CollinsPoetry Accommodating /// by Jen CorriganProse The Conversation /// by Michael Keenan GutierrezProse Pre Pointe Exercises /// by Jesse FalzoiProse My Lottery Tickets Are All Duds /// by Kristene Kaye BrownPoetry The Way I Can’t Breathe When I Think of You /// by Yvonne AmeyPoetry Brevity /// by John Sibley WilliamsPoetry searched /// by Ellen AdamsPoetry The Industry of Edmonton /// by Megan ParanichPoetry A Black Woman Gets a Window Seat on Aer Lingus /// by Teri Ellen Cross DavisPoetry Softball /// by Samuel Jacques (dacdac)Audio/Visual There’s Nothing Past This /// by Emily TownsendProse Years /// by Doug RamspeckProse Some Things You Can Ask Me /// by Rita CiresiProse Ransom /// by Mark BudmanProse Big Stone Lake /// by Denise JarrottPoetry Rue du Cherche-Midi /// by Mary MussmanPoetry Taxol /// by Autumn McClintockPoetry summer, like a nosebleed /// by Patrick KindigPoetry Another Aftershock /// by Heikki HuotariPoetry Persephone Waits for Spring /// by Rita FeinsteinPoetry You Demand Nothing /// by Steven DuongPoetry Waltz of the White Bird a Cloud Against the Sky /// by Josh BettingerPoetry No Hay Luz /// by Julia Mendoza FriedmanAudio/Visual Anyone Going Knows Already What’s Gone /// by Nicholas BrownPoetry The Right Place /// by Tyler SonesProse Is That Mushroom or Ash /// by Darla MottramProse Juana Catarina /// by Robert KostuckProse When Zac, 32, Strolls In IRL /// by Francine WitteProse IDOL /// by Heather SweeneyPoetry Perceived Distance /// by Kelly R. SamuelsPoetry Still Life With Splenectomy /// by Mingpei LiPoetry bone requires bone #13-15 /// by Darren C. DemareePoetry things i have learned /// by Charlotte CoveyPoetry Delovely /// by Erika Jo BrownPoetry Little Washington /// by Annie VitalseyProse Big Cats /// by Cody GreeneProse Relief /// by Alex Gallo-BrownPoetry Watching Planes Take Off in Late Evening While High on Shrooms /// by Ariel FranciscoPoetry Mount Saint Helens— /// by Georgia DennisonPoetry The Papers Read: Today, She Was Stolen /// by Robin CedarPoetry Waste Natures /// by Orchid TierneyAudio/Visual Birth Day /// by Kari TreesePoetry Instructions for Humility /// by David GustavsenPoetry Wi-Fi in a Museum /// by Hussain AhmedPoetry Do You Know How Awful It Is? /// by Lucy HitzPoetry 3 Flash Fictions /// by Sally BurnetteProse Hannah /// by Phillip SterlingProse Happy Lucky Gas /// by Rebecca ChekourasProse Blue Monday /// by Kodiak ArmstrongProse Supermarket Bouquet /// by TJ AcenaProse White Caps Spilt to Sea /// by E. BriskinPoetry The Great Bear /// by Jeanine WalkerPoetry The Photographer /// by Joseph JP JohnsonProse Medusa in Paradise /// by Cade LeebronPoetry Someday /// by Mia Ayumi MalhotraPoetry The Second Bride /// by Allegra FrazierProse Lunar Breaks /// by Sarah AronsonPoetry The Weight on My Back /// by Penn StewartProse 2017 Poetry Contest Honorable Mention: Snowbird /// by Lauren ParedesPoetry 2017 Poetry Contest Honorable Mention: Relaxing Sounds for Sleeping /// by Julianne NeelyPoetry On Judging of the Death of Another /// by Brian CooneyPoetry The Helicopter Patients /// by Michael MountProse Circles /// by Joshua Gottlieb-MillerProse We Are Not Responsible /// by Nathan Alling LongProse Mechanics of Causality /// by Cali KopczickPoetry Notice of Proposed Land Use Action /// by Jennifer FlissProse Pacifica Interviews: Brit BennettProse Flooding the Moon /// by David Dodd LeePoetry Finding + Destination /// by David Ishaya OsuPoetry Wishbone /// by Georgene Smith GoodinProse he says he’s maddecent: the vapors /// by Justin MonsonPoetry On The Fifth Rib /// by S CearleyPoetry Her Dance /// by Carol EllisPoetry Botany /// by Rob CarneyPoetry Six Variations Upon Ayn Rand’s Profession of Love for Her Husband, Each Concerning a Discrete Human Element /// by Stephen M. SandersPoetry Taking Liberty /// by Matt KelseyPoetry Your Man for a Prison /// Peter ClarkeProse Hustlers /// by T.C. JonesProse Guillotine /// by Kaj TanakaProse Fight /// by Mercedes LawryPoetry How Do I Fit This Ghost In My Mouth /// by Anca SzilagyiPoetry Excerpts from ‘Glass City’ /// by Nick GreerProse The Origins of Poetry /// by Kevin HonoldPoetry * /// by Simon PerchikPoetry A Tea Party of Contemporaneous Proportions /// by Brandon ChristopherProse Creative Non Contest Honorable Mention: Seven Cities of Good /// by Laura Madeline WisemanProse Reward /// Santi Elijah HolleyProse After the Fact /// by Heikki HuotariPoetry Some mornings I don’t want to put on clothes because I know I’ll eventually have to take them off /// by Erica BrunnerPoetry Sugar Blizzard of the Wishful Thought /// by Alec HirshmanPoetry Floorboards /// by Jack C. BuckProse The Humpback’s Wardrobe /// by Timothy DayProse The Balloon or the Ballerina /// by Scott BrokerProse Hoops /// by Blair HurleyProse Transient /// by Quenton BakerPoetry The Waiting Dream /// by Mark J. MitchellPoetry What I Kept To Myself /// by Ellie RogersPoetry When My Parents Were Hippopotamuses /// by Alex Gallo-BrownPoetry Look and Leap Contest Winners AudioPoetry,Audio/Visual,Prose Release /// by Talia CohenProse Like Birds, We Will Fly Away /// by Amy Foster MyerProse Deployment /// by Asha DoreProse Spirits of the Motherland /// by Jim DavisPoetry The Elm /// by Chris CampanioniProse The Search Function /// by Adrienne BrockProse 12 /// by Rose SwartzPoetry Fire and Milk /// by Andrew RhodesProse Arms /// by Matt RowanProse Little Switzerland /// by Ian WaltersProse I Turned Out Pretty Good /// by Sean GillProse You Must Believe In Spring /// by Aaron BennettPoetry Paleontology /// by Lydia Copeland GwynProse University of Iowa Museum of Natural History /// by Catherine PondPoetry Afro-Seattleite Fragment #15: Jimi Hendrix Plays “The Star-Spangled Banner” – Woodstock, 1969 /// by Malcolm FriendPoetry How To Disappear /// by Julie MorinProse Triptych /// by Joan WilkingProse King and Queen /// by Melissa GutierrezProse Ghost Story /// by Kayla Rae CandrilliPoetry Suckered /// by Lowell JaegerPoetry What’s Confusing /// by Willie FitzgeraldProse Excerpt: “King of Joy” /// by Richard ChiemProse Field Trip /// by Catherine FisherPoetry Countable Minutes /// by Kyle EllingsonProse Three Rabbits /// by Barrett BowlinProse Busboy /// by Ian DenningProse Everything /// by Sarah Brown WeitzmanPoetry When the Cold Names Its Ghosts /// by Ronda BroatchPoetry The Police Artist’s Sketch /// by Ace BoggessProse 2015 Poetry Contest FinalistsPoetry 5×5 /// by Caitlin JohnsonPoetry Shem /// by Monera MasonProse Wild Flowers /// by Kara DalyPoetry Fires /// by Jeff WhitneyPoetry Ephemeroptera /// by Brian CooneyPoetry Komfort Kats /// by Thomas MundtProse I Lose Track of the Variables /// by Joannie StangelandPoetry Fractured Identity & The Freak Show: an Interview with Valerie Bandura /// by Lacy Arnett, Audrey Camp, & Valerie BanduraProse Common Sense /// by Sarah ShotwellProse Wedded to the Sea /// by Maura StantonProse It’s the Goatsucker, Homes /// by Rachel MindellPoetry When Will You Be Off Paper? /// by Ace BoggessPoetry Date Book /// by Genevieve HudsonProse Caldera /// by Jeremy HawkinsProse We Are A Teeming Wilderness /// by Shena McAuliffeProse Ugly Babies /// by Jillian QuinnProse Forwards /// by Rachel Hermans GoldmanProse In Violent Protection /// by Chelsea Werner-JatzkeProse How Whalesongs Were Invented /// by Alicia LaiPoetry We Were /// by Travis SharpProse What Comes Next /// by Shelley WoodProse Christy /// by Catherine SimpsonPoetry Pacifica Interviews: Maya SonenbergProse,Audio/Visual The Curmudgeon /// by Jim HanleyProse Birthday, Again /// by Julie FengPoetry Pacifica Interviews: Rebecca HoogsPoetry,Audio/Visual Jellyfish LakeAudio/Visual The Key /// by Sarah SalcedoProse Big Alabama and the Pearsal Bully /// by James ValvisProse Tiger Heaven /// by Patricia MarquezProse What Went Down With the Ship /// by Bruce McRaePoetry A Shudder, To Think /// by Michael PaganPoetry Springtime /// by Kristen SteenbeekePoetry Red Planet /// by Jo Ann HeydronProse 292 /// by Owen LucasPoetry Typewriter /// by Olga VilkotskayaPoetry Life on Mars + Devil’s Racetrack /// by William Bradley & Emily IsaacsonPoetry,Prose Arse Poetica /// by Leena JoshiPoetry Practice /// by Paul VegaProse An Act of Justice /// by William DoreskiPoetry Los Angeles Shoals /// by Will CamponovoPoetry The Dusk Hours /// by Ross McMeekinProse 2 Poems /// by John CalavittaPoetry Our Night /// by Corey MeslerPoetry Sighting Ourselves in at the City Dump Site /// by J. Scott BrownleePoetry Mixed Media /// by Joannie StangelandPoetry Edward Hopper’s Women /// by Kirsten RueProse Indiana /// by Jake UittiPoetry After Columbus Day /// by Evan KlavonPoetry Below Rainier /// by Matt HemmerichPoetry September Manifesto /// by Jaimie GusmanPoetry Infinitive, 2AM /// by Sarah Kathryn MoorePoetry