All Mine
Poetry 86
Jessy Randall & Daniel M. Shapiro: Three Diagrams
Jessica Pierce: Augur
Has something winged arrived? People wait, fierce and wary, on their roofs. A few cows stand steady, heavy with milk. The ground rolled, water rose, and now the waiting. We don’t know that the earth’s axis tilted, bringing more microseconds of darkness to each day. We do know shattered earth, water where it shouldn’t be, […]
Greg Pardlo: Wishing Well
Outside the Met a man walks up sun tweaking the brim sticker on his Starter cap and he says pardon me Old School he says you know is this a wishing well? Yeah Son I say sideways over my shrug at the limpid smooth as spandex behind me. Throw your bread on the water. I […]
Kristine Ong Muslim: Menu Entry for a Mr. Saunders
Folded A man who just lost his job takes the stairs and exits the building. At this point in his life, he turns into an origami swan. Wingtips slanted in aerodynamic stupor, beaks pursed. Breathing through his mouth so as not to bend out of proportion the sharp edges of his body. […]
Katie Morris: Being Visible
Curious pitchers with large ears. Potatoes with eyes poke through the grocery bag. I tried to grow sideways, listen around corners, searching out the hidden things we strained our lives through. Magazines stashed high in the bathroom, whiskey in the closet the girl who stood in front of my brother sitting […]