He knows he’s good not a good cook loves it too much maybe not always a good father butcept when back in time he gave his children a bath then he was in good heaven
Poetry
Carl Boon: Istanbul, 5:45
The brunettes and the bankers stroll behind me in threes, each in love with one who can’t exist, each surveying corners. It’s 5:45 and the call to prayer flares up from the Modern Mosque. The crows in the magnolia trees are calling for plunder. Boys shoot baskets in the schoolyard, and seventeen green walnuts have […]
Rebecca Baggett
Rebecca Baggett is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Thalassa (Finishing Line Press) and God Puts on the Body of a Deer (Main Street Rag). Her work has received four Pushcart nominations and appears in numerous journals and anthologies, including Miramar, New England Review, North American Review, the Southern Poetry Review, and Tar River Poetry. She lives in Athens, GA, where she works […]
William Nixon
As a poet, Will Nixon is the author of Acrostic Woodstock, My Late Mother as a Ruffed Grouse, and Love in the City of Grudges. With Michael Perkins he has co-authored Walking Woodstock: Journeys into the Wild Heart of America’s Most Famous Small Town and The Pocket Guide to Woodstock.
Kyla Sterling: Blue Chicory
This is where we sat once, cinder blocks for back steps, trumpet vine spreading under the siding. You played so many songs on your old harmonica and I danced. When the heat went out, you combed tangles from my hair, fed me straight from the jam jar. The mail piled in the corner— old pennysavers, […]
Laura McCullough: Maggot Therapy
Near death, sometimes the hands curve into themselves like claws. I held my mother’s open, smoothing the fingers, trimming the wild nails. Once, years before, my husband and I awoke to a fawn caught in the family compost, a hole on its back end festering with worms, and he pinched each one out swiping his […]