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 in mid august and you go outside at 4am and...
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...
ORIGAMI AND SWEATERS by Kennie Romero
ORIGAMI AND SWEATERSBy Kennie Romero
Yextla, 1970
Once upon a timeYear 1970, in a Mexicanvillage tucked in the foldsof corn and poppy fields,abuelito threatened a witchfor putting incantations on abuelitawho laid in bed near oblivion’s curtain...
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...