THE PROPAGATION By Mark Young
THE PROPAGATIONBy Mark Young
The Mackerel
Fish school whenthe moon is out. Be-fore. Separate. Atvarious levels withdisparate meanings.States of grace. Wait-ing for the cast of lightacross the surface of
the water. On app-earance drawn to it.Coalesce, luminescent.In the...
SHUDDER, By Dustin Pickering
SHUDDERBy Dustin Pickering
Shudder
Love, shudder and face me:look at these cold, keen eyesand terrify them.Make sound into lightand drive each fault down harder into my heart.
I am numb with confusionand this madness makes me ineptat...
BLUE GRASS By Gabriella Garofalo
BLUE GRASSBy Gabriella Garofalo
God, why have you got so many souls? In the deepest blue of your existence No, you think and shout, no – Even stones fear beasts and kids Trees stifle branches A red lamp measures time...
WATCHING THE SUN GO BY By Gareth Culshaw
WATCHING THE SUN GO BYBy Gareth Culshaw
WATCHING THE SUN GO BY
Her days were bythe window. An ornamentpainted by his hands.
She would watch the sunmove along the terracedhouse. Turning the time
from west to east.A sack...
BREATHING By Bryan McCormack
BREATHINGBy Bryan McCormack BreathingThe father’s breathing steadiedto a light,sputtering hum.Outside his door, the sonlistened carefully, ingesting the hum’svibrations, producing another sputterin his eardrums.It was like this before, when the son was a boy,and it continues...
ONE WEEK DAY WHILE WALKING By Jeremy Gadd
ONE WEEK DAYWHILE WALKING By Jeremy Gadd One week day while walking downWattle Street, I heard a cry thatbrought me to a halt in mid-stridelike a prisoner shackled to a wall,and my heart missed a beat,...
LIVE LIFE BECAUSE By Samantha Kriney
LIVE LIFE BECAUSEBy Samantha Kriney
You Were the Start, the Peace, My First Years --after Barry White
My feet loved the touch of my mother’s womb until thefirst note you sung to teach me how to controlmy...
HOMAGE TO ORWELL By Tomas Sanchez Hidalgo
HOMAGE TO ORWELLBy Tomas Sanchez Hidalgo
Homage to Orwell,
surrounded by slot machines,in the main hall(perhaps the Tanjiers?)by the penultimateof our national heroes,perfect for adults and children,proud to bethe gear lever in Europe,respecting the margin for...
SACRIFICE By Georgia Eugenides
SACRIFICEBy Georgia Eugenides THE SUMMER I NEVER HADin the morningi search for myself everywhere,under ivory sheets that smell of cinnamon, between porcelain jarson the highest kitchen shelf and among blue, crossed outpoems in my notebooki...
NOW I SEE, By Mignon Ariel King
NOW I SEEBy Mignon Ariel King
Chifforobe
Daddy had one, so when its three tones of art-deco woodcreaked open on tiny black hinges to emit a breath of cedar,I fell in love. I could see the...