You’re the persistent fish swimming the same surviving river, un-skinned and unhinged by a year of bad weather. Lost ones in the bones, your water damage, your rage of flood and fire and still, all along Warm Springs Road the naked ladies have the nerve to flower pink and full. A choir of constant blackbirds […]
Poetry 80
Christina LaPrease: A Mirror, Dissolving
Someone sneezes & I remember learning to say symptom, how we grew into the hush: caught coughs in a mask, pocketed morphine in rabbit furs & practiced numbers by the show of our bones. Once, we gathered pillows for a reason of rain & bedded down in a tub, chasing dragons. A junk calm blazed […]
Siel Ju: Cleaner
Something about the noise makes me want to raze the place, build up a new world with steel lego blocks. Clean lego men who don’t sweat. All polished efficiency. A quiet chrome aligned and arranged to fit. Manual labor like pushing paper, bricks in pristine rows, power tools with firearm silencers. Birds hop in and […]
Eryn Green: This Slowly Stampeding
Teakettle on the stovetop, no more boxes we thought. The white roof’s sudden razing, the storm a hundred miles off—not bad news, bad luck. Without notice, windows won’t budge. Tiny far-fetched flickerings pass like paper from a windy deck—I’ve learned to hold a shadow in a box. By the evaporating shore, past the river, we […]
Rachel Abramowitz: The New Materials
I was only a module, these things. If reading a book is the remedy For walking I’ve heard your voice on the radio, though. I believe you for the amount of time it takes To extract my dinner from its chill coffin And to remember you across from me, or beside. Were you the one […]