bus me uptown fly me around subway me down mass transit me to see you seventy-five and alive I smile into the light being built from a train curving into this station the exit folks spill out I step into the car and as if that were a cue I am two and a half […]
Issue 68
Jennifer L. Knox: Ode to the New Girl at the Office
O new girl at the office! How many young girls I’ve watched come and go afore ye in their itty-bitty Charlie’s Angels t-shirts, the shit brown trim around the neck and sleeves like donkeys’ halos, and O! shiny tennis shoes with soles sprongy as bubble baths. How the body glitter settles in the creases of […]
Jennifer L. Knox: The Best Thanksgiving Ever
After the meal, Sandy decided we should spice up charades by slapping the loser’s butt with a ping-pong paddle. Whenever Ed got slapped, he farted because he was so nervous. The ladies won, slapped all the men’s butts, but then what to do? “Take off your clothes!” I told Sean, who didn’t seem like the […]
Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis: Tin Pan Alley
Clamourous 1914 West Twenty-eighth, between fifth and sixth. I mean the real spoon back beat of piano pounders simultaneously striking the air, steely in a flock of metal birds beating their wings out of time. Now the flower sellers line the street, mute with their loud mums and long-necked lillies, tuberose and tea flowers. When […]
Daniel Kane: Poem (the sexiness of the ancient world)
The sexiness of the ancient world whether in cities still intact or now in ruins is pretty hot, I admit it. But, come on, compared to the miraculous pastel clarity of environment that the bells of the ice-cream truck engender as their tinky peals mix with their lover the air as the truck wends its […]
Joelle Hann: Order
Let’s deal with the brilliant forsythia and the strangle of lilacs that beside the train tracks bloom and burn, yellow, mauve, erratic, effusive, firing flames beside the train’s upstate roar even as it shrieks by at no matter what speed tell these seasons they can’t go on like this— oh just a glimpse of the […]