Lesson Plan by Adam Tavel after Joseph Wright’s The Corinthian Maid, c. 1782 – 1784 Who remembers our discussion of myth from yesterday? we lied and said the world began with light In Wright’s composition, what is...
Landscape With User Instructions by Jennifer Bullis Jennifer Bullis Jennifer Bullis is the author of the chapbook Impossible Lessons (MoonPath Press) and of poems & essays appearing in Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Terrain.org, and Water~Stone Review. She writes...
Overkill by Megan Snyder-Camp the ice shelf / online / I mean I have three kids already the pleasure / walking up a hill / breathless sea level / or to holler down from the top of the stairs / to holler we can take a sibling pair / or maybe even three / depending my...
Canteen by Patrick Holian A graveyard, but for vindication. A memory, but of something that hasn’t happened yet,but not a premonition. A rotisserie chicken, but also every item on the dollar menu, but also water in our cereal,stretch it out babe. A miracle, but...
Intimates by Sarah Carey We were told to label our mother’s clothesto reduce the risk of loss so all the pieces I retrievedwhen she died are marked in permanent ink as if her smell was not enough to testifyshe lived. Nothing fit me but a pair of panties so I wash and...
Imported: Fruit by Eric Odynocki After Jericho Brown Time to buy fruit, a relishing plethora That I weigh, inspect for spots, to tell what’s ripe. Dad would complain, How can you tell what’s ripe? Fruit aisles sit sterile, barren of fragrance. He...
