Traveling past deadfall hickory and cypress knees, past the pearly eggs of apple snails beaded onto pickerelweed, the metallic lace golden orb spiders had strung between us and the sky, we paddled where the river took us, easy bending passage through a wilderness that gave way only enough for us to keep moving, unsure where […]
Issue 66
Colin A. Clarke: I Lost Half of My House This Morning
I lost half of my house this morning. The two halves of what was to be my home were hurtling down I-83. The man driving my shower, my living room, my tiled kitchen counter, my southern exposure, fell asleep, charged over the rumble strip, and ran head-first down a steep, wooded slope that served as […]
Elena Karina Byrne: Vanquish Mask: 9th Century Japan
okashi, a smile suddenly expressed and quickly gone. -Bradley Smith, Japan: A History in Art “You cannot break my breath,” she says, “being at last breath.” Concealed by cloud, cursive dissolve, her face is made of gofun, the crushed aged oyster shell, white powder pigment and perfection. Light sent adrift on the wish to be […]