LEAVE by Katie Predick
LEAVEBy Katie Predick
The Physics of Loss
I thought of you todayin the grocery store. It is strawberry season and a bounty of bright red fruit was piled in the cooler.And I am back in that afternoon 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 longerthan the...
BEAR MARKET by Francisco Mejia
BEAR MARKETBy Francisco Mejia
TRAJECTORY TO LOMBARDI’S, 1905
King Darius’ armies baked your ancestors upon their shields,mouths reeking of cheese while suppressingBabylonian revoltsand Nebuchadnezzar III.
Did Celaeno not foretellthe blood guiltof Aeneas and his men,guilt driving them...
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 acquisition,unsated hunger for morecontrolling interaction,erasing tribal tieswith mediums of exchangeat...