Relief by Alex Gallo-Brown Certain months,the mind goes.It can be hard to latch onto anything,to command or compel.Meanwhile, the bodywanders, performs.Does its dailydiligence.Angers no one.Its own angergone, replaced byweightlessness, calm.The mind says,this is...
Watching Planes Take Off in Late Evening While High on Shrooms by Ariel Francisco The sky an electric blue being pulledinto a blackness I’m too scared tolook into directly with these pupilspried wide like busted elevator doors.My brother tries to guide me but myphone...
Mount Saint Helens— by Georgia Dennison named after Mother of Emperor Constantine,who fed the poor, who insisted,after three hundred years of persecution– ashes itself onto the lone plain, like a wave. They make Christmas ornaments out of her. Lies. ...
The Papers Read: Today, She Was Stolen by Robin Cedar You could hear the mothers screaming,my customers say, rememberingthe day Tokitae was stolen. These crusty old men who stareat my breasts each morningand tell me to loosen up, relax, laugh, smile, baby,...
Birth Day by Kari Treese 1Ruby’s on the pier: cookies and creammilkshake—cold, thick, delicious. The long pier juts out over gray watersloshing toward the sand. A movie beginning soon. The waitress forgetsthe check. He drags me by the hand back down the long pier; I...
