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Issue 69
Daniel Nester: Poems from God Save My Queen
Flash Gordon (Soundtrack) In The Space Capsule (The Love Theme) They look at each other. Your very own roustabout*, a cosmos, a Kosmos bullied by timpani. Remember Flash and that Chams du Baron, sweating, bandanae around his neck? An animal’s glance, so diagonal and quizzical in its wonder at the closing dumpster walls. Porno and […]
Miguel Hernández: I Walk On In Shade, Filled With Light, Translation by Renato Rosaldo
I walk on in shade, filled with light: does day exist? Is this my tomb or my maternal dome? A pulsing beats against my skin like a cold shard that sprouts, hot, red, tender. Perhaps I’ve not yet been born, or have always been dead. Shade rules me. If this is life, what could death […]
Laurel Snyder: The Girl Learns Forfeit
1. The girl’s sure that the silt in her tea is ground glass, and she thinks she’ll die soon. She wants to tell the boy, but they’re playing chess, and it’s his turn, so she gropes at her belly instead. The girl’s sure she’s bleeding on the inside. She lets go her teacup, but the […]
Susan Varon: Photograph for My Father
Something simple like an apple can make me cry if it is very small and fallen like the apples in our yard with their chalky taste, lying in dented grass. It’s been so long since I’ve seen something that pure, just the size of the lump in my throat when I posed for you in […]
Max Zimmer: After You Set Your Head On Fire The Rest Will Follow
The way your father waits for the bus to the slaughter house outside the house each morning with his brown shoes tied The way your father drowns in the noisy snoring of his daughter’s dreams at night through the thin rock of unpainted wall The way your father runs across the weeds of the fields […]