Heikki Huotari – Wherein I Check My Intellect

Wherein I Check My Intellect Prove me wrong. If it’s not grammar then it’s syntax and the alley cat is walking down the aisle but to be born again. Among the underprivileged I give my point zero zero one percent. The interval of confidence is imposed on the data and the senses have their seasons. […]

Justin Hunt – Visiting My Son in the 14th Year of His Death

Visiting My Son in the 14th Year of His Death In the palm of night, in a rundown house at the edge of town, I enter your room, find you in bed with a coven of small, broken machines, one clamped to your head, another to your chest, the rest strewn across your sheets—you, fussing, […]

Amy Small-McKinney – Inside Our Womb of Danger

Inside Our Womb of Danger             After Yehuda Amichai In our basement, a walk-in closet spacious enough for all of us, shelves-to-ceiling provisions: peas, sauerkraut, dried milk. Bomb shelter and cupboard never used except to grab an extra can while mother cooked, or a condiment, say, for a lamb dinner in our kitchen where father slammed […]

Kathy Nelson – A Week after We Had Stood Together over That Fresh Grave, 1968

A Week after We Had Stood Together over That Fresh Grave, 1968 Your shattered face as you came in from the dark, our dog’s furry body draped over your arm like laundry. What I regret? Not the lack of a fence or a leash to keep him away from the highway, but that after we’d […]

Margo Taft Stever – Changeling

Changeling Now you have come out of yourself, removed your skin, my mother, my changeling, who has known so many selves, so many shapes. Now you have come from yourself, my mother, my pupa, emerging from the chrysalis, my changeling, saved from the caw, the drunken froth. Can you truly have forgotten what you were […]