Poetry from Carl Boon
Photo: REVOLT The Other America When I was tender in the breasts and still fourteen, I started sticking pins in the numb flesh of my elbows. And because it didn’t hurt the way I needed, I set fires in my bedroom, small ones at first, hymn book pages, Barbie hair, Popsicle sticks. I didn’t want […]
Poetry from Karly Jacklin
Photo: Lena White IN WHICH WE DON’T HUNT DOVES BUT INSTEAD AIM OUR SHOTGUNS AT THE SKY I wake up alone in it: It, the heirloom gleam of misery. Inherited, like this feeling was somethinglocked in my grandmother’s chest until January.Until “mother meet ground.” Mother me, ground. And I don’t ask for this sequence—nobody ever […]
Poetry from Babo Kamel
Photo: Curious About All The Message on the Tissue Today I answered the oven, but no one was there. It could have been a crank call. I told it to hang on. I couldn’t remember what name I was using. Someone keeps asking if I know who the president is. I tell them that I […]
Poetry from Darren Higgins
Photo: Amin Hasani Eating Songbirds Smoke nests in the fire pit The stones hiss Oil-swabbed bodies butter browned on spits Thyme, pith sharp hollow bones— Cut off the beak . . Darren Higgins is a writer and artist living in Waterbury Center, Vermont. His poems and stories have appeared in The Iowa Review, Quick Fiction, […]
Fiction from Derek Fisher
Photo: Adrian N. Rash Purple sky in morning. Endless promise of warming. Purple sky at night. We all turn out the light. I decided to do a thing. Every hour on the hour I’d tell a stranger they’re beautiful. The decision came to me while writing poems in the Greenhouse Cafe. It hasn’t gone well […]
Fiction from Denise Tolan
Photo: Aleks Dorohovich Sell You, Sell Me The Commercial: The commercial ran in the early eighties, in the evenings when sitcoms came on. So many sitcoms came on. The shot began with a black screen, then quickly opened to a wide shot of fireworks over a lake; the concept seemingly a meta-firework itself. As if […]
Fiction from Jane Snyder
Photo: Adam Chang Little Red Schoolhouse My mother and father were in a good mood the day they put us on the train, full of fun. It was Saturday and they stayed upstairs for a long time. When they came down they sat on the couch with us, watching Underdog, said nothing about it being […]
Fiction from Dennis Barone
Photo: Immo Wegmann Quartet Gianni walked down the street to see if his car had been sold. To his chagrin, there it sat, apparently unmoved as well as unsold, the large banner price still affixed to the front windshield. He had tried to convince the owner of the lot to affix not a price but […]
Poetry from Carol Stewart
Photo: Hello I’m Nik The World Is Full of Those Who Bear Its Weight Now and then, I tell him my dreams like when he turned into a giant Lego brick, playing catch me if you can up and down the stairs or when he unleashed an antlered pig into the guest room; how could […]
Poetry from Tom England
Photo: Devi Puspita Amartha Yahya Aqua Dulce These sad thoughts that follow you round like Leaves. Once, once only, you see your son In the garden, at the glass house, pressing seeds Into cold dark soil. A radio buzzes somewhere. It is stranger than a dream. You try and throw it off Like old shoes, […]
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