by Jon Riccio | Apr 12, 2022 | Issue Two
Étude in Nostalgia Minor, “You May Be Able to Help Solve a Mystery” The reliquary of Tab lacks a chalice, so puts a vending machine in confessional’s place. What’s the ordinance that confuses proverb with parochial gene? The implications were tax return or holy...
by Lydia Yawn | Apr 12, 2022 | Issue Two
APHRODITE, I SHOULD HAVE THANKED YOU— I should have thanked you rather than takingthe kitchen scissors to the pudge of my bellyin attempt to cut off the parts of me I hated—instead of breaking apart the Bic razormeant for shaving and slicingit into my inner thighs. I...
by Jonathan Ellingson | Apr 12, 2022 | Issue Two
SEVENTH PERIOD SHARES “Blah blah blah a bunch of whatever,” he says, butit is more than that. This is a gilled mushroom. Fourkinds. Some are purple. Human eyeball, wingspan diagram, fungi recyclesnutrients. Plant cells are different from animal cells.DNA passes from...
by William "Nez" Nesbitt | Apr 12, 2022 | Issue Two
I DREAM OF CUBA If I lived here, the first thing I would do is remove my watch and throw it off a cliff. Let time slip from this wrist. Rejoin earth and air. Have the sun let me know what to do and obey only the seasons. Nothing else. No...
by L. Annette Binder | Apr 12, 2022 | Issue Two
COLORADO Summers were spent in motiontrimming the elm hedges andkneading the doughfor the Quetschekuchemy father loved,and how she sweated over the stovein that cauldron of a kitchen.And how she loved it becauseit was hers, the coppertone rangeand the chipped...
by Ron Silliman | Apr 12, 2022 | Issue Two
from NOW, HERE, THIS: HALF-SONNETS for Terence Winch & Ivan Sokolov IV A Zoom screen with hundreds of squares filling an entire wall. A sharp pain not in my right thumb but in the nerves in my palm leading to it. My father at 19, holding me aloft. All the mirrors...
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