Accumulation by Megan Snyder-Camp Two months after she leftwe drove to a cliff by the highway and broke rocks openat the shaded table. A volunteer showed ushow to pry the rocks apart like books,like a baby does to books, exposing one protected moment in timeor...
Jolene at 33¹ by Brian Clifton The speaker’s pleases bloat. A drum in the stomach’s soft pit. A guitar strung with rain. The name that spins within the sleeping leaps from another’s mouth. The flaming swells; the fire shrinks, the...
Sinter by Arah Ko I didn’t knowI was angry until lightning pulverized the stream and I feltnothing. No quiver at the flashbulbnaked river rocks water leapt awayfrom like a cutdown dress, red sea peeledalong its sandy floor. No tremblingfear at static vapor only a...
Cain by Christine Byrne Beekeep: unbekept – We were married in our twenties – Nobodies – I outlined myself – In the palm of your good hand – My marked stigmata – Like another room for waiting – For the simplicity – However unordinary – To keeping bees – To what’s...
Lesson Plan by Adam Tavel after Joseph Wright’s The Corinthian Maid, c. 1782 – 1784 Who remembers our discussion of myth from yesterday? we lied and said the world began with light In Wright’s composition, what is...
