Rue du Cherche-Midi by Mary Mussman Is it fair to choose a book like Nightwood over you, to wander?For each of us longs to be Robin Vote,to allure, to err away, our days foreshortened: the dance, the blush. Never the second person singular, she eclipses into us,...
Taxol by Autumn McClintock In 1994 under FDA approval, Taxol, a semisyntheticform of paclitaxel from the slow-growing Pacific yew treebecame one of the best plant-based treatments available. Lucky yew: they semi-saved it,knew its nature (knew they needed it) and...
summer, like a nosebleed by Patrick Kindig there are children in the public pools& the public pools smell like urine. the sun touches them,colors the air thick & yellow. mornings beginwith a symphony of birdsong, sirens rolling. evenings humwith air...
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 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 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...
