At Gray Ghost, West Point, I’m shut upstairs where Maggie Lunty locks me in her bedroom with her, says she’ll never allow me to leave, will keep me there beyond Christmas, beyond when we go to fourth grade, when she gets married. She fields me when I lean toward the door, blocks me when I […]
Issue 89
Daneen Wardrop: Descending to the Airstrip
Descending to the airstrip on post, the Colonel flies the fighter low enough to rattle desktops in the school below, signals to his daughter in the classroom. She knows it’s hi, see you at home, spare ribs for dinner, tilt of wings to clatter pencils and chalk, teacher trying to explain continents […]
Shannon Wagner: Lore (III)
The inside of God is black. Even before His trachea caught fire it was black and stained our sleeves. We wear the dust of Him anywhere dust can get. Our teeth are black, our hands black, our cuts black and rust, our corneas starch-white. We can finger the crag of Him beneath our skin, a […]
Nomi Stone: What is Growing in these Woods
Green in here, gleaming like being inside a fable but with stalls of fruit you can’t eat. To go home, leave crumbs. When the wood circles you back here instead, let the lost and the impossible ripen in you, ripen and go.
Nomi Stone: Wound Kit
Simulaids Deluxe Casualty Simulation Kit: $760.00 Stick-on Wounds, Eyeball (900), Foreign body protrusion (901), Eviscerated intestines (902), Large laceration 5 cm (903), Medium laceration 3 cm (904), Small laceration 1 cm (905), Compound fractured tibia (906), Small sepsis wound (909), Large sepsis wound (910), Avulsion 3 x 5 cm (911), Major avulsion 8 x 5 cm (912), Crushed foot […]
Nomi Stone: War Game, America
The war scenario has: [vegetables stalls], [roaming animals], and [people] in it. The people speak the language of the country we are trying to make into a kinder country. Some of the people over there are good others evil others circumstantially bad some only want cash some just want their family to not die. The […]