Accumulation by Megan Snyder-Camp 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 timeor...
Jolene at 33¹ by Brian Clifton The speaker’s pleases bloat. A drum in the stomach’s soft pit. A guitar strung with rain. The name that spins within the sleeping leaps from another’s mouth. The flaming swells; the fire shrinks, the...
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 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 is...
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...
