Adam Prince The Profane and the Sacred One time, my high school girlfriend wanted to shit on me. Or maybe she wanted to shit on me all the time, and here was the moment the thing was expressed. We were trading fantasies, one for one. And, really, I should have been cautious from the […]
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Anne Valente, “Lullaby for Bullfrog”
Anne Valente Lullaby for Bullfrog Eastern American Toad (Bufo Americanus Americanus) A high-pitched trill, the singing of so many toads hidden in the grass. Emerged from the ponds of their late-spring breeding, unfurled to grasslands and forests and dense thickets of cattails. You remember them now, every toad and frog species in the state […]
Maria Kuznetsova, “The Storm”
Maria Kuznetsova The Storm That year, we had already missed over two weeks of school by the end of January. The snow just wouldn’t give up. It covered all the houses, the pine trees were flush with it, and even the creek where Lacy and I would go hunting for crawdads in the summer […]
Mika Taylor, “The Uncertainty Principle”
Mika Taylor The Uncertainty Principle I built my son a quantum booth from an old refrigerator box. I went all out, painted it up, glittered the top, strung rope for a doorknob. The inside was simple, matte black, no frills. I thought about adding buttons to press and pretend with, but the dark quiet […]
Michael Reid Busk – “Prince”
Michael Reid Busk Prince To paraphrase Winston Churchill’s words, used in a very different context: No one could ever forecast the actions of Prince; he was a riddle wrapped in a mystery, inside a purple velvet enigma. Prince was a sparkly Sphinx, a funk-pop Mozart, a 5’2 totem of talent, a Christian sex god, the […]
Robert Hahn, “Confessions of God’s Perfect Child”
Robert Hahn Confessions of God’s Perfect Child We went to church every Sunday when I was growing up, and I supposed other people in that little Indiana town were doing the same, but they were going to more ordinary and obvious churches. The other people in town were Methodists, Baptists and Presbyterians, along with […]
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Martha Lundin, “Pulse”
Martha Lundin Pulse River fishing requires a certain amount of tact. My father is the most graceful when he is on the river, a fish following his fly. He squats, hunches over his fly rod, and slowly drags the leader. His feet move delicately through the current as he tries to find the perfect […]
Peter Twal – “People Who Are Trying to Be Polite”
Peter Twal People Who Are Trying to Be Polite And you give me a living room tattoo in the dark of your portraitYou, a dog biting off my arm Soldier you, dressed in all black sight blurry waterboarding me and another and another and here, I’ve saved youthe last bite of this grenade I’m […]
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