A Doctor’s Glossary of Terms for the Female Body by Emma Bolden A woman’s womb is a closed fist. An upside-down pear. The apple that, serpent-struck, she plucked from God’s forbidden tree. And God has never forgotten. If her womb contains a fetus, the clenched...
Some Might Say Grace by Ruth Baumann Picture a Florida Tuesday, summer warming up the airlike a weapon. The woman, lost in her own mind. Where else? She’s been cautioned. She hears warnings, speaks themon good days, speaks them fully on her best days. She knows the...
My Cheese Soufflé Has Collapsed! by Ruth Bavetta With apologies to Frank O’Hara I was buzzing about the kitchenwhen suddenly I realizedit was way past time for himto come home he’ll have somestory concocted as to whyhe’s an hour later than he promisedthe car is...
Ode to Monday Morning Runs in Central Park by Alejandro Pérez (after Patrick Rosal) this is an ode to the homeless guy/who says God bless you/ three times/every time I run by/ this is an ode tothe people who run by me/ to thepeople who are faster/ an ode toaccepting...
How Rain Appears by Nicholas Reiner losing a sonin the prime of his life is like losing a mindnot in a dark time not a period of great duress not graduallyjust all at once the way sky goes from not rain to rainto rain to rain to rain ...
