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Issue 92

Rachel Edelman: Memphis Blue

November 17, 2015 by PBQ

“Dis here Memphis It may go; Floods may drown it; Tornado blow;” Sterling A. Brown, “Memphis Blues”   Susie knew how to get her FEMA check. She’d already called the hotline the day after the flood before we brought over the Shop-Vac and got the fans going. Her grandkids were upstairs: Derek on the couch […]

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Jordan Durham: Kodachrome

November 17, 2015 by PBQ

A friend holds out a picture and before turning it over says: This is the heart suspended at the exact moment of impact. He flips it, and I see over the fence a fawn hanging, pierced through a post and expectant like she still can make the leap. Framed far enough away that her blood […]

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Ken’ichi Sasō: Suspense   Translated by Joe DeLong and Noriko Hara

November 17, 2015 by PBQ

Living things are a real mystery. Who could have left behind this much stuff?   Their “symbols” intrigue me:   <X>     <Q>     <?>       <!>   <Regret>     <Top Secret>     <Global>     <Wall>   I’ve catalogued my finds by provenance, by roundness and squareness. Curves and dots are scattered throughout.   […]

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Mary-Alice Daniel: Mother, Part 73

November 17, 2015 by PBQ

The photographs I return to when I feel I could hate my mother: In one she is holding me up to prove how well she lined my eyes with kohl to protect them from the desert dryness. I am a baby with a pink Lamborghini who is selfish with birthday cake, but still refuses to […]

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Jiwon Choi: Jane Austen, Reconsider

November 17, 2015 by PBQ

writing me into your landscape of petticoats and pianofortes, please be advised, my party manners are unfortunate   I will drink all your wine and double dip.  Invite me to tea if you can forego all your layers of etiquette.   Don’t you see I would fare better in something Elmore Leonard? Knocking knees with […]

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Jiwon Choi: I Pay My Book Fine

November 17, 2015 by PBQ

I have kept you Ko Un for days longer than the iron bound librarian allows   you are a poet of poets because magpies sleep on your shoulders through winter and even a millet shortage uprising cannot awaken them.   You write with the ink of your veins about travelers you’ve met on old village […]

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