Jeffrey Little – Waltzing to Keep from Flying All Apart

Waltzing to Keep from Flying All Apart Listen. We must accept that not even an assassin exists beyond the false binary of choice. Remember if you please the parable of the penalty box and Custer’s ungodly ham. I took a quick look out of the big bay windows and the Cossacks were still perched in […]

Joseph Hutchison – Earache

Earache I Seems the past year’s griefs have settled in one ear: intermittent needles—and in between, a hiss like water when a small leak’s developed in some basement pipe. II Wherever it’s bleeding out, water seeks depth, yields to gravity, muttering incessantly as it wanders and descends. Soon the whole house could be made of […]

Andrea Hollander – This Is a Story I Didn’t Tell

This Is a Story I Didn’t Tell The day the drillers came with their giant machine that dug and dug and beat and beat, the sound went on for hours that day but fifty, sixty, ninety feet and the well was dry. And I didn’t say my husband was out— out of our house, our […]

Laura Glenn – Up in the Aerie

Up in the Aerie 1. In the tiny room of the library, next to the aviary of dead birds where my dim reflection feathered into an owl behind glass, I perch at the desk facing an oak-framed window—three-fourths full of an oak tree with lobed leaves and acorns in thoughtful berets. Between desk and window, […]

Jill Gerard – Cartography

Cartography DISSECTED AND MOUNTED HUMAN CEREBRO-SPINAL NERVOUS SYSTEM, 1888: HARRIET COLE Imagine her moving along corridors, through rooms, taking care to keep things right, watching as doctors take apart cadavers. Inside we all have highways. Dare to follow— here, the instinct to pull back from flame and there, the hot burn of desire. Imagine her […]