Poetry from Changming Yuan
Walking with Father: For Yuan Hongqi One thing I forgot to mention, Dad Is I intentionally moved either before Or behind you, each time we happened To be walking together. That way, you could Neither pinch my arm not slap my face So readily; otherwise, you would have to Embarrass yourself if you ran forward […]
Fiction from Jessica Hollander
The Young Mother Sings Loudly In the Kindermusik class the teacher is always smiling. The young mother feels guilty seeing anyone with more energy around her kid than she has. Even her husband when he first comes home, sweeping Clint up and crowing falsetto – can’t everyone just calm down? She didn’t know having a […]
Fiction from Kyle Hemmings
Believe or Fear Everything After my breakdown that caused me to lose control of a bus (how it jackknifed and blocked an entire bridge at sunset), I was placed in Ward 6, where anyone could be anybody. There I met an old woman who called herself Greta Garbo. She lingered on my unintended smile. “When […]
Poetry from Michael Cooper
Man from Shells -after Gaston Bachelard and Bly i. Temporal Man juts from the conch blows sour notes of command with a light flakey coat over fish mail sour notes of command with a light flakey coat swinging his Pygmy paring knife—the crosshatch on the pig’s rump a snare of beauty a spiral cut with […]
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