Saving Daylight by Sarah Carson On the drive home from her after-school karate class, mydaughter and I have the windows open for the first time sincethe trees still held their color. The city bus stops are gilded withthe glint that only appears...
HAITI + THE EGG, THE WISH, AND THE RESOUNDING CRACK by Simone Reid HAITI Eleven and all the months were summer The night was a great big bug I swallowed like the woman slipping into my grandfather’s room Everything was a concrete wall and nobody ever...
Nones by Peter Munro Sing when all the horseflies sing of meat. Twitch your skin eleven times and bare for us. When all the air wavers with heat, when all the biters wing- work harmonies and drone as if to declare provender, tell us where. Tell us— we who are here—...
3 Untitled American Sonnets by Jackson Burgess God came down from heaven & told me my life’s purposeis to collect abandoned shopping carts. God told meto make herbal tea. God told me to crouch & savethe web-stuck moth while on the phone my brother’sbrother...
The Dead Mother and Grieving Son Spiritual by Rick Bursky God didn’t invent mercy and is the last one To lecture on kindness. Eventually, everything changes And we’re shellacked with grief. In the meantime, just like every other Wannabe god I’m collecting urns filled...
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...
