This time when you come you’re not a thing lost, not broken or recently fixed— you don’t break or fix me. Now you’re harmless. Now, you’re a glove-boxed ice scraper in south Georgia, a post hole digger, birdseed scattered to a city of squirrels. Now, when you appear out of nowhere […]
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Shevaun Brannigan: When the World Ends
there won’t be newspapers with letters to the editor objecting to how the city council handled the crisis. No TVs to turn on. The hand-cranked radios too hot to handle, but then we won’t have hands. No psychologists to diagnose Post-Traumatic Death Disorder, no couches to lie back on as a glistening orb of light. […]
Lisa Andrews: Mother Love Song
Watch me, I am the living snake that sheds its skin. Watch this emerald sheath turn to grass. I go on forever. I am the green flash, quick as summer lightening. I am that fast. I am the cobra. Kiss me and your village will be saved. I am the boa constrictor that hangs in […]
Zaccaria Fulton: Dramaticule
[ Mother lies in bed, center stage, under a spotlight.] Director [to twelve-year-old son]: Remember, you’ve been brought in here by your elementary school Guidance Counselor. This woman is also a friend of your mother’s, and she wants you to tell your mother that it’s okay to let go. Your mother’s body is wracked […]