Poet Joshua Clover and 11 Students May Face Prison Time and $1 Million in Damages for Shutdown of US Bank
If …
Red Balloon Rising
by Laurel Blossom
I tied it to your wrist
With a pretty pink bow, torn off
By the first little tug of wind.
I’m sorry.
I jumped to catch it, but not soon enough.
It darted away.
It still looked large and almost within reach.
Like a heart.
Watch, I said.
You squinted your little eyes.
The balloon looked happy, waving
Good-bye.
The sky is very high today, I said.
Red went black, a polka dot,
Then not. We watched it,
Even though we couldn’t
Spot it anymore at all.
Even after that.
Running Water- Modified Sonneizio on a Line from Mong-Lan
by Brandon S. Roy
red muscular lungs of roots
beating hearts of skittish cats
yellow …
Contentment
by Michael Ryan
Fragile, provisional, it comes unbidden
as evening: the children on the block
called in to dinner that for tonight
is plentiful, …
Thumbing For Truth On Highway 101
by Jasper Mushroomjesus
Hitchhiking is a dying art in the United States. On almost every freeway …
What I Learned From My Mother
by J. Kasdorf
I learned from my mother how to love
the living, to have plenty of …
My mother was like the bees
by Jeanne Wagner
because she needed a lavish taste
on her tongue,
a daily tipple of amber …
Another Day in the Dictionary
by Phil Ginsburg
A fight is about to break out between pages 102 and 103
In my dictionary
Ballistic …
SPRING TRAINING
by Ivan Offski
madly efficient American diet
happily frequenting the drive-up window
a toast to billions and billions
not of stars.
frigid lakes, clamor …
No Expectations
by Sara Beining
i want to breathe her hair, give a backwards hug, and not look at each other’s eyes, …
Review of Charles Potts – Inside Idaho
by Marc Pietrzykowski
For a few years, at the tail end of graduate school and …
The Lift
by David Lehman
The wonderful thing
about being with
you in this hotel
lift in London full
of people is that none
of them knows …
CD Review – Greycoats – Setting Fire to the Great Unknown
by Ben Macnair
The new release from the Minnesota band Greycoats contains the …
Red Head
by AJ Fitzgerald
Harvey Holt always noticed that the tower’s top glowed different colors on different nights. It flickered against …
Line in the Sand
by James H Duncan
never seen Harlem except from a window,
usually at night high up above the faces
lumbering …
KO-AK
by Ricky Garni
Kodak files for bankruptcy on Friday. On Saturday, Telly Sevalas, star of “Kojak”, celebrates his birthday. On Friday, …
Some Say
by Deborah R. Majors
Some say the child
drowned
and her Mamma
buried her beside
the family pets so she
wouldn’t get lonely,
then claimed Caylee
was …
The Able and Endeared
by John Jay Flicker
Take the panic button as a literal extension of limit
Obligatory conscience that drives moral …
HEAT
by Joseph Hargraves
We whistle violent tunes,
eat spotted crab-meat, savor
the burn of Wild Turkey.
Timid Shirley twitches as
wincing tweezers start
pulling back the …
The Paradox of Palindromes
By Noah Gordon
Perhaps when I write
your name, it’s a way
for me to remember.
The way you tugged at …
Number 40 on My Bucket List
by Kristina England
Flirt with five men
on the same day.
Man #1:
Single.
Young.
Nice-looking.
He’ll perspire at the word marriage
before
after
or …
Murmur
by Kate LaDew
The boy’s skin was very pale. Arms turned down, thin strips of black wrapped around, mapping where the …
We Found This
by Susan Keiser
Bookburning for sport, lurking
just beneath the chatter,
is on the rise again,
and angels weigh the claim–
the positional …
Contentment
by Michael Ryan
Fragile, provisional, it comes unbidden
as evening: the children on the block
called in to dinner that for tonight
is plentiful, …
Go Past the Southview Sleep Lab/ Down to the End of Graceland and Over to Lamplighter Square Shopping Center Where …
Would You Be My Corn Muffin?
By Calvero
I was sitting
on the train
and I had just finished
a corn muffin
…
carry on with your shirt off
by Meghan Tennison
One Glorious Day, groveling in my fault line,
inert laziness found me panning for …
Ephram Pratt Ignores a Cacophony of Silence
by Jack E. Lorts
Intangible as a rock,
the work stands
enormous but silent,
like elk song
wading alive …
Silver Elvis
by Raud Kennedy
“I like raw sugar sprinkled on my nipples,” Heather said, smiling, her lips glistening with maple syrup …
To Have You in My Corner, If Only For a Summer
by Noah Gordon
I’m standing on a hill
watching the river wind
through …
And That Has Made All The Difference
by William Merricle
Gail, Chris and I skipped stones
and watched the sun set
across the reservoir
they …
Almost Twenty
by Madeline Levine
Freedom is pacing
Sticky linoleum barefoot sucking on
Metaphors
Like sun-steeped cherry tomatoes
Till wee small hours they
Burst
On your tongue.
Dreamers, we …
Thumbing For Truth On Highway 101
by Jasper Mushroomjesus
Hitchhiking is a dying art in the United States. On almost every freeway …
Review of The Descendants
by Travis Catsull
I sat down to this movie knowing nothing about it. Somehow I’d managed to escape …
Review of Charles Potts – Inside Idaho
by Marc Pietrzykowski
For a few years, at the tail end of graduate school and …
CD Review – Greycoats – Setting Fire to the Great Unknown
by Ben Macnair
The new release from the Minnesota band Greycoats contains the …
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