Aimee Seu Aubade 15 I love our slow game in the morning: summer light color of whale tusk, us collapsed exactly in our shadows so there are no shadows. Our dreams like docked rowboats knocking in the sway. Scouts of my hands, before eyes’ location. I’m like a language he starts speaking slowly getting […]
Category: Winter 2020
Tom Kelly – Pac-man simulation of father & son bonding time in a shopping mall food court
Tom Kelly Pac-man simulation of father & son bonding time in a shopping mall food court Father & I shuffle in circles to better adjust to the scattered banquet of Sbarro pizza & Auntie Anne’s pretzels, cookie cakes & Panda Express lo mein, the luxury of saxophone muzak while contemplating gumballs & frozen bananas. […]
Threa Almontaser – Meeting with a Ghost Friend at Starbucks
Threa Almontaser Meeting with a Ghost Friend at Starbucks She orders passion-tea lemonade, sweetened, her way of weaning off coffee. Because ghosts already have a hard time falling asleep. I have a hard time speaking. It’s like there’s always two wet fingers in the muscle of my throat. When she drinks, I watch the […]
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Mónica Gomery – Visit
Mónica Gomery Visit When my sister comes to visit I remind her I was born without a sister. She talks about people we know but they all have some other name— Wind Wheel Turning, Dark as Earth, Song on Infinite Loop and as she speaks I recall unlived histories inside my body. When my […]
Susan Comninos
Bequeathal If legacy means long arms—my grandfather’s smilestitched to the gap in my teeth, thenwhen I die, makeme a golem from a palmfulof dirt and tornpocket of time, with arms long enough to reachyou, to playwith the fringes at your waist. Susan Comninos’s poetry has recently appeared in the Harvard Review Online, Rattle, The […]
Michael Alessi – Shrimp of the Dirt
Michael Alessi Shrimp of the Dirt I. That spring a brood of cicadas some billions strong crawled out from the apron of the mountains and filled the hollow with its call. The Blue Ridge sheltered the town so well from weather, wind, and sunlight that most of the hollow folk had forgotten it could […]
Kelsey Rexroat – Human Tide
Kelsey Rexroat Human Tide The art installation opened to feverish worldwide coverage. Even with pre-purchased tickets parceled out through a lottery system, a constant line snaked for hours outside of the warehouse. People from around the globe flew in to New York and then covered the remaining distance by bus, cab, and rental car […]
Dave Harrity – Et in Arcadia Ego
Dave Harrity Et in Arcadia Ego We lived in a house on Lee Avenue in Camp Taylor when we moved to Louisville. A blue-collar neighborhood of Cape Cods & bungalows, the mingling of kempt & unkempt yards, chain link & broken sidewalks, hilly with oaks & cathedrals & post-war predilection. Across our street—a city […]
Matt Muilenburg – Scoopers
Matt Muilenburg Scoopers Fade in. Ext: A fenced-in backyard keeps a toddler and three dogs from exploring the blue-collar neighborhood in which the property—single-level house, single-car garage—is set. The fence surrounding the property gives privacy to the RENTER, a mid-twenties grad student whose WIFE, also in her mid-twenties, is pregnant for the second […]
Daniel Garcia – A Night to Remember
Daniel Garcia A Night to Remember Instructions: Follow the steps to complete the blanks. After, put everything in past tense. 1. Choose an act someone wouldn’t believe happened to you. 2. Choose an act people laugh at. 3. Choose an act only women experience. 4. Choose an act prevalent on college campuses. 5. Choose […]
