Veronica Patterson
Dream on the Ides "What sayst thou to me now? Speak once again." William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar The dream opens in a room of dusky...
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- Oct 31, 2022
Linda Lown-Klein
Leaving Traces I huddle in the back of an open pickup truck near the Lebanese border. Only gray skies and cliffs, green fields below....
- Oct 31, 2022
E.V. Noechel
After Dinner, When You Ask What I Fear Most I keep a growing encyclopedia catalogued alphabetically by name, color, and caliber. Always...
- Oct 31, 2022
Emily MacGriff
In the Hallway The day my Mother was raped Did the oak floorboards creak with age wafting in tobacco-scented draft around my padded soft...
- Oct 31, 2022
Brian Builta
Dear Austin, I used the last of your Burt’s Bees. Also drank the last of your Gatorade, ate your opened raspberry and vanilla crème...
- Oct 31, 2022
LC Gutierrez
Rollin’ like I was bulletproof, on payday night, I would glide my bike through the 7th Ward, of New Orleans, the street level as a coffin...
- Oct 31, 2022
Karen Kilcup
Spring Again This one was bad: I’m in bed with someone, I don’t know who, and I’m wrestling with sweaty sheets. My mother, who is...
- Oct 31, 2022
Kirsti Sandy
Governor’s Island Bridge It’s like one of those bridges in songs, he said But I thought he meant Over troubled waters, or the kind of...
- Oct 31, 2022
Jane Vacante
Hide And Seek I made the game you mother me daughter we play the same each tries to outfox the other up at dawn track the next drink down...
- Oct 31, 2022
Craig Sipe
Sunday Open House in the Country Sheds are useful things, like tools, so the vise and crank-stone grinder were still mounted to the bench...
- Oct 31, 2022
Irene Sherlock
Drought I unwind the hose, walk the garden beds considering who to favor—who not— pass the thirsty hellebore, shriveled ferns. Sorry, I...
- Oct 31, 2022
Karen Mandell
The Lemon Tree in the Living Room The heavy-duty plastic crackled as I shifted my weight on the couch. Straight ahead, in front of the...
- Oct 31, 2022
Jocelyn Ulevicus
How To Open Up And Like It Raising my arms overhead to replicate a deer, laughing our asses off because in no way did I look like a deer,...
- Oct 31, 2022
Linda Laderman
Elegy for Second Chances At first, surrounded by the suddenness of your death, I convinced myself you were out walking with your dogs. In...
- Oct 31, 2022
Philip Wexler
Understanding Shaded by the blue flowering wisteria, my sister and I small talked on the recycled plastic bench before she welled up with...
- Oct 31, 2022
D. Walsh Gilbert
Lughnasadh Cow parsley circles the foot of an Edith blue spruce like so many flower-girls surrounding a bride. Not even the rain can...
- Oct 31, 2022
Greg Clary
Anomaly Stepping Honor System Ice Sons of Italy Steel City Ukrainian Home Greg Clary is a retired college professor who was born and...
- Oct 31, 2022
Lisa Zimmerman
View from the Car Window A brown and white dog is trotting down the sidewalk, a small shepherd mix with a feathery tail. He’s clearly...
- Oct 31, 2022
Jason Emde
sitting on a gifu street corner at 9 a.m. on a saturday, thinking about john lent & sweating, hot already but blue sky after a week of...
- Oct 31, 2022
Lesley Kimball
Lament I couldn't hate Mitch McConnell more. I know hate is only fear—only— of those who aren't afraid. You reading this 100 years from...
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