Ryan Bollenbach is a writer with an MFA from University of Alabama’s creative writing program where he formerly served as the poetry editor for Black Warrior Review. He reads for SweetLit: A Literary Confection and Heavy Feather Review. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Timber, Colorado Review, smoking glue gun, Bayou and elsewhere. […]
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Ryan Bollenbach: My Lover Squawk Squawks and Then Explodes
We spent the morning before just talking. He said your body is slick like construction equipment, how it can move the sand to make a runway for my unhurried strut. He said your body is like a French fry on a laminated paper plate. In the high noon sun, I said you […]
Ryan Bollenbach: Adagio For Strings
No one wanted this smoke. Not Willem Dafoe or the albatross Whose wings Willem borrowed as splint for his splayed arms As if real bullets ripped through him. Not the wisteria Planting its tendrils on the ground’s sweaty palm Like the sun taking pennies as a return investment on heat. I drove my truck at […]
Episode 87: The Speaker is Clearly a French Fry
How big is an alligator heart, Slushies? Have seen the wingspan of a Sand Hill Crane (a bird once mistaken for the Jersey Devil)? And what happens when you put Mentos in your soda? Life and its peculiarities, its soaring losses and aching beauty, and its utter, utter absurdity come barreling at us in “a […]