Lauren W. Westerfield That Same Summer I. Trace the outline of these fields: alfalfa, lentil, wheat. Green like citrus. Green like lasers. Arm stretched out as far as it will stretch beyond the window of his Ford Escape. Your fingers graze the line of the horizon, where blueness yields into Palouse. Your fingers trace […]
Category: Winter 2019 Creative Nonfiction
Beth Gilstrap – How to Tattoo a Disordered Woman
Beth Gilstrap How to Tattoo a Disordered Woman Session One: The Lovers, The Dreamers, and MeArtist: ConanLocation: Inside left wrist Ignore what she tells you about the Muppets helping her survive childhood. Turn her slender wrist in your gloved hands while you remark on her good veins. Ask her thoughts on size while you […]
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Cheyenne Nimes – Skylab & Feather: Reflections on Skylab Falling, and a Long-Dead Father
Cheyenne Nimes Skylab & Feather: Reflections on Skylab Falling, and a Long-Dead Father. If a person falls freely, he won’t feel his own weight. —Einstein A house on a horseshoe-shaped drive, in the Valley Forge section of the Mainline, Pennsylvania, a tract house—à la 1950s Levittown—mod under jumbo ham radio antennas and the sag […]
