THE FORREST by Omar Alexandre
THE FORRESTBy Omar Alexandre
you can look and you can touch
a guy gave me head todayand my next door neighbor saw us
MAPLE SAP AND SKIN HUNGER by Adrian Slonaker
MAPLE SAP AND SKIN HUNGERBy Adrian Slonaker
Discovery in the Stacks
A tawny art textbook last loanedforty-five years earliersat like a hardcover wallflower inthe vastness of...
SUMMER NIGHTS by Jacquelyne Nemeth
SUMMER NIGHTSBy Jacquelyne Nemeth
Alaska
Don't say you love me. You don't love me if you don't know that my favorite smell is when it rains...
EMPTY HOLLOW HEARTS by George Gad Economou
EMPTY HOLLOW HEARTSBy George Gad Economou
Empty, Hollow Hearts
all you've ever neededwas to get out of the rain;silent moments in the storm,stars making grand promisesto...
DESPERATE SEEKER by Gary Beck
DESPERATE SEEKERBy Gary Beck
Misstep
For thousands of yearsman's biggest challengewas a steady food supply,energy exertedto feed family.Then profit reared its headawakening the insecureto paths of...
BARE HYMN by Seth Jani
BARE HYMNBy Seth Jani
Mountain Pass
I erased myself so I could learnThe inner life of things.This river has a name,But it’s not the one we...
WINTER’S TALE by Timothy Robbins
WINTER’S TALEBy Timothy Robbins Wichita7 miles above Wichita,19 years from Julie saying,“If he breaks your heart,he’s dead meat.” And methinking, “Who eatsmy heart, eats lean meat.”How to convert years tomiles? The equation is...
A BAG OF HANDS Mather Schneider
A BAG OF HANDSBy Mather Schneider
A BAG OF HANDS
Jalisco, Mexico. In a black plastic bagthey found them:
12 severed handsremoved from...
ENAMORED by Susie Gharib
EVOLUTIONBy Eduardo Escalante
Evolution
During the slow rollover of the morning,I order the garden plants.In my hands, several seeds.I hear the groaning of the earth,need to...
TRANSCRIPT by Mark Young
TRANSCRIPTBy Mark Young
A line from Ada Lovelace (2)
The way he ties his ties waytoo long is a science of itself,like hoisin sauce or miso....
