Another Aftershock

Another Aftershock by Heikki Huotari      Another aftershock and there’s still gamblinggoing  on.   The  pilot   wearing   epaulets   is  asconsiderate as three men of the previously spinninglilies. Slather  me with silhouettes if you would haveme  be  the ...

Persephone Waits for Spring

Persephone Waits for Spring by Rita Feinstein Her heart was deeper than a thermosand couldn’t be filled, and there wasn’t enough stale coffeeto last the winter, even when watered down so muchit tasted only like heat. She had to crawl onto the counter,faux granite...

You Demand Nothing

You Demand Nothing by Steven Duong but a history. The bent trees, gutted temples,ring-years coiled in sepia—all of it. You cousin every crackin the sidewalk. You, with your PhD in alchemy, trade  names on the black market, though your story is a hotelrededicated too...

Waltz of the White Bird a Cloud Against the Sky

Waltz of the White Bird a Cloud Against the Sky by Josh Bettinger Let’s go to America and smoke cigarettes.Let’s go to America and remove our selves from painful equationsthat ricochet from pixel to pixel—a darkening dream in the foreground of the city....

Anyone Going Knows Already What’s Gone

Anyone Going Knows Already What’s Gone by Nicholas Brown everyone dies first      thing in the morning      unable to bear another day my father didn’t need       reminding to leave         gentleness out of his going like anything worth       doing it...