The Waiting Dream

2015, Poetry

The Waiting Dream by Mark J. Mitchell   Enslaved by circumstances, to wait, without vanity, uncalculating and available, for the whim of the marketplace, to wait, without pleasure, for routine or for chance. —Joyce Mansour, “Practical Advice for...

What I Kept To Myself

2015, Poetry

What I Kept To Myself by Ellie Rogers     Like in 7th grade when David Myers held in a sneeze until his left lung collapsed; the oil slick of his trapped irritation spilled across his esophagus, and his alveoli, like fleeing fall geese, pumped clogged...

When My Parents Were Hippopotamuses

2015, Poetry

When My Parents Were Hippopotamuses by Alex Gallo-Brown   When my parents were hippopotamuses, they grew tiny immaculate strawberries and wore them on their fingers like rings. They didn’t have to taste them— they knew that they were extraordinary. The president...

Look and Leap Contest Winners Audio

2015, Audio/Visual, Poetry, Prose

Look and Leap Contest Winners Audio The winners of our 2015 Look and Leap Contest, as read by Managing Editor Courtney Johnson at the release party for Issue #6 at Gallery 4Culture. “Death’s Fabulous Remains,” Barbara Harroun”Branching,”...

Spirits of the Motherland

2015, Poetry

Spirits of the Motherland by Jim Davis   Xena Warrior Princess with an iron bra sprays Downy wrinkle release on khakis & I say thank you. I am gentle. There’s a little nipple on my new pen so I can draw on my intelligent pad, 15 dreams of when I was a violent...

12

2015, Poetry

12 by Rose Swartz     All her teeth are breaking                                As he pretends to read her palm the scholars say we can’t trust chance           she hates him but chance is more than a force                    when the hate reaches the vortex...