“Replacing” by Changming Yuan
Replacing Having squeezing out Every blood-soaked syllable Out of your callous throat Out of your ischemic heart You have become deflated, wishing The starlight of the whole night To be injected into...
View Article“Looking for Something Dead to Roll Around In” by Paul Hostovsky
Looking for Something Dead to Roll Around In Feeling surly and misanthropic on Thanksgiving, I excused myself from the table where the gratitude was so thick you could rip it with your canines, tear it...
View Article“Fugue 24″ by Jnana Hodson
24/ there, in thick grass beside a slow stream a Jersey heifer ———-wears telescope goggles to observe a bragging rival ————————–* * * one with horns turns to observe the huddled two Holsteins...
View Article“Strangers on the MTR” by Valerie Wong
Strangers on the MTR stilted silence as we walk out of the office together, thank god we only have to do this for five more seconds. but oh wait, you’re going the same way and you just said “let’s go...
View Article“A Promised Mutiny” by Ben Nardolilli
A Promised Mutiny The ones we underestimated are stronger now, I suppose we might get up and study them So that they can be estimated plainly, Once we treated them as a treat to report on, A brief...
View Article“Edouard Manet’s Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé (1876)” by Daniel M. Shapiro
Edouard Manet’s Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé (1876) Daniel M. Shapiro is the author of two chapbooks and a forthcoming collection from sunnyoutside press. His poetry website “Little Myths” can be...
View Articlethe balloons by Charlene Kwiatkowski
the balloons We let them go on the count of three like we did in high school when we threw our blue graduation caps in the air, except these ones didn’t come back down. And the only thing blue was the...
View Article“How the Poem Travelled” by Corey Mesler
How the Poem Travelled ————-for Mary Reynolds The poem, though weak, travels like a wave across decades and breaks on the shore of lives, settled, mostly settled. The poem uses her name like a charm, a...
View Article“Another Claim” by Steve Klepetar
Another Claim Who stands to my right? The hanging bough forbids another claim – only cobwebs and tired leaves growing old on these blushing trees with their voices lost in fog, a conspiracy of angry...
View Article“Blond Couple in Flood Time” by Rodney Nelson
Blond Couple in Flood Time the girl and the boy were even eighteen and in a dress gown and white tuxedo had been somewhere ———-moving through full moonlight on the wide stone walk of the river park...
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