WORD by Patrick T. Reardon
WORDby Patrick T. Reardon
Make
In summer, the father grilled hot dogswith his white t-shirt off, skin burning.
In fall, he tolled novenas.
After snow melt,the whitened bones of a gnawed bird,chaos of feathers.
Can you taste the beckoning?
In...
LIFE, INTERRUPTED by Roseanne Morales
LIFE, INTERRUPTEDby Roseanne Morales
Life, Interrupted
A growing sensation never there,a dream you woke up from, wonderingdid it even happen, in another life,perhaps another death never recorded?This be is not to be, no questionasked or answered,...
LAMP LIGHT by Craig Kennedy
LAMP LIGHTby Craig Kennedy
Neighbors I Have Known
Robbiewho never held a job but didn’t discuss it with meTommywho wanted to write a bookAdrianwho chased birds from her backyard every morning by banging the tree with...
MY GRANDMOTHER’S BRIEF INVENTORY OF UNNATURAL DISASTERS IN SINGAPORE by Cyril Wong
MY GRANDMOTHER’S BRIEF INVENTORY OF UNNATURAL DISASTERS IN SINGAPOREBy Cyril Wong
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Of course, I remember my husbandas a young man – sleeked-back hair,his taller frame, a voice like a wall – that first date, holding...
MY GRANDMOTHER’S BRIEF INVENTORY
MY GRANDMOTHER’S BRIEF INVENTORY OF UNNATURAL DISASTERS IN SINGAPOREBy Cyril Wong
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Of course, I remember my husbandas a young man – sleeked-back hair,his taller frame, a voice like a wall – that first date, holding...
PROFIT by Dr. Nathanael O’Reilly
PROFITby Nathanael O’Reilly
The Third of July
On the corner of Prairie Dunesand Spyglass sixteen miniatureAmerican flags line the path
to the police officer’s door.Two neighbors mow lawnsbut most have left town
or gone to church to hearthe...
RAPID MOVEMENT by Patrick Hurley
RAPID MOVEMENTby Patrick Hurley
Selections from “Variation” (Part Two of Quartet)
sequential fantasy bendssheets of lightinto cylinders––veinsarteriescapillaries
the waxing and waningof pressure feltlike forces imposed
mercury risesin a chamber––in the backgroundthe hum of equanimity
questions about the numberof the world’s...