PESSOAS by Arthur Powers
Seánce with Fernando Pessoa
1.
I, I, I, I… or should I say “we”we know the Anglo-Saxon mindthat desperately seeks and seeks to findthe Truth behind...
CHICAGO by Elsa Pair
Bloodletting
Bloodletting,but for the rage.
If I cut open my chestsurely all that will come out is the
rage, spilling down my frontlike...
AT FAULT by Cheryl Heineman
BirdingThey are raven-like, dark-wingedmoving toward a tangled nest
or like crows circlingseeking their own kindagainst a fog-ivory sky, the outline
is interleaved with comingsand goingsbirds-eye criesflybysof...
THREE DAYS by Peggy Hammond
Three Days
An oak we plantedleans precariouslyinto areas not its own.
An expert arrives,advises removal.Clinical, he ticks off the steps.Limbs shorn, trunkcut into sections, hauled down,and...
BOBOLINKO IN A FOREST by Kenneth Pobo
WANDAWOOWOO AND MATH
Numbers feel like a desertI’ve never visited. I’m probably missingsome gorgeous night-blooming cacti.I doubt I’ll ever venture there. I havemovies, books, and music. In high schoolI...
TENEMENT BASH by John Grey
TENEMENT BASHAnother partyon another tenement third floor.He gets there late.There's people speaking Spanish.There's some speaking English.It's a neighborhood bashand it's that kind of neighborhood.The food's mostly Mexican,tacos, burritos,and the beer's Coronathough someone...
ALABASTER POLISH by Terry Brinkman
Alabaster Polish
Short admonition ableSpiritual like purity abolishBeautiful veined alabaster polishDeliberate lie whit cableLady her self-setting the tableUnmistakably evidenced demolishedWoman’s softly feathered face polishedGentle a high degree of fable
ZERO SUM GAME by Mark Murphy
Bird Brained View of Power
for John Bolton
I have not journeyed here to steal anythingfrom your domain,least of all, your modest nest,
COMING OUT by Chris Arnone
Coming Out
head-first, blood-slickedhair like a tiny John Stamos.Bubbling with style but no pronouns.
Snip the umbilical, suctionand wail, count tenfingers and toes but no sex.
