The Checkout Guy at the Co-Op by Alice Duggan There’s something alert in the air between us. His keystrokes show me her name still listed a long-time member I get her discount. His jokes are poised at appropriate distance, he might be flirting or could this be a...
Good Neighbors by Jill Mceldowney I ask the sky for a miracle and the sky sends me pigeons sends me letters. Come home said the letters and I know a miracle is only a miracle after...
Cruising by Joey Wańczyk When ticks become hungry for blood it is called questing: they climb and climb thick trees, tall grasses, hairy bushes, because they don’t have wings or legs strong enough to leap onto their prey, so they reach out from a great height and...
Paraph by John A. Nieves The last curl recurls then crosses itself into an impromptu x and this is how I knew myself for a while—I was a flourish dancing off a well-laid line, the hard-pressed gob before the ink thinned. And my heart used to be a washed-out wash...
Your Results May Vary by Patrick Meeds We’ve all had it happen. Spacing out at a stop light until the embarrassing honk from behind. Pushing and pushing on a door only to realize the little placard by the handle says pull. When I watch sports I...
when i wanted to be a girl by Tara Labovich Still i feel it That hollow hunger The space between hills It was a rush like rain in the gullets Or insistence Beauty I mean The question of What matters Answered quick wet by lipliner I don’t mean to say the girl word...
