University of Iowa Museum of Natural History by Catherine Pond Under a replica of a mammoth sloth, you place my hand on your stomach and I feel the baby kick. I look at a diorama of the Plains Indians, imagine a tornado sweeping across their cardboard empire,...
Afro-Seattleite Fragment #15: Jimi Hendrix Plays “The Star Spangled Banner”–Woodstock 1969 by Malcolm Friend “…this was only the very beginning of a long, violent summer.” —Aaron Dixon, My People Are Rising: Memoir of a Black Panther Party...
Ghost Story by Kayla Rae Candrilli Margaret, with the longest blonde hair in Wyoming county, took over 30 stabs with a buck knife— her body swallowing the blade again and again. Her jealous man wrapped her in a burlap sack, stuffed her under the little bridge where I...
Suckered by Lowell Jaeger I’m trying my best to figure which move suckered me most. The Gorilla Hug. Double Reverse. Reverse Double Reverse. Or the Captain Jack, which tortured my elbow behind my back. Then he’d cut me down with the Lumberjack, drop me flat-faced on...
Field Trip by Catherine Fisher Taxidermy wolf melts into rug spine fails when its made to hold you up strong. The boy told me he said this wolf he loves America he wears and breathes America, I point out his shell hands with Uncle Sam’s fingernails sharpened to a...
Everything by Sarah Brown Weitzman Everything was his. Everything had his nameEvery flower. I hadto take his wordfor it. Sky, earth, water,even the air his choosing.Every single creature,even the snake.Only hiswords in my mouth.My own name. Whythen is it so hard to...
