by Hester J. Rook | Apr 10, 2017 | Poetry
How to build a woman, sodden flowered and strong Hester J. Rook Changes come sudden as storms – a crystalline stillness and then fat drops splatter across the steaming earth – onto rooves – into open windows (rainroar on corrugated iron loud as if it...
by Ingrid Jendrzejewski | Apr 10, 2017 | Poetry
Pear Tree I am turning into a pear tree. It has taken me months to realize it, but there are things that, after time, one can’t deny. My legs have become stiff and unyielding. Wooden, one might say, if one lacked tact. My bodily systems have begun to feel botanic,...
by Gwynne Garfinkle | Apr 10, 2017 | Poetry
family (a form somehow must) Gwynne Garfinkle the cat vanishes forever between one episode and the next so does our beloved dog (we don’t notice) the girls once had a different dad the boys, a different mom now they’re gone never to be mentioned like the...
by Layla Al-Bedawi | Apr 10, 2017 | Poetry
The idea for this triptych of poems was conceived when Layla, Holly, and Bonnie spent an evening at Santa Monica Pier in LA, where they had their futures foretold by a fortune-telling machine. Each writer’s poem is directly inspired by her fortune, borrowing...
by Michael Janairo | Apr 10, 2017 | Poetry
Instructions for Astronauts Michael Janairo I. The People of the One Ship By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return. — Genesis 3:19 Oh, Voyagers, Our...
by Mari Ness | Jan 5, 2017 | Poetry
The Study Mari Ness In the mirrors, a monster with stolen eyes and breath, hungry for human speech. In the doors the shadows of her wedding guests, mourners weeping over fruits and sweets. In the walls sweet roses and disease, harsh chemicals and slow decay. In the...
