Flesh
Flesh by Shon Toney my flesh has been ruptured, forced to reveal what’s beneath, as if a mouth opened by its own voice, and not
Month: January 2013
Relax
Relax by Smokey Farris There she sits alongside the herbal oils and homeopathic medicine store. She’s saying a sentence while adjusting her awkward and milking
Up Against It
Up Against It by E. Grennan It’s the way they cannot understand the window they buzz and buzz against, the bees that take a wrong
Jet
Jet by Tony Hoagland Sometimes I wish I were still out on the back porch, drinking jet fuel with the boys, getting louder and louder
The Taxi
The Taxi by Russell Edson One night in the dark I phone for a taxi. Immediately a taxi crashes through the wall; never mind that
Lost Carl Sandburg poem found.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A poem by the late writer Carl Sandburg that appears to have been previously unknown has turned up in the archives of
3 Worlds
3 Worlds by Dan Raphael swimming in the supermarket, shopping cart fish traps, raccoon working the register, which tree has the cold beer inside it.
Cleft from Limestone
Cleft from Limestone by KJ Hannah Greenberg Cleft from limestone, also from yeshiva bucharim dancing, singing, dreaming, Near craggy outcropping, Kotel stones, white doves, sky-fostered
The Fall
The Fall by Russell Edson There was a man who found two leaves and came indoors holding them out saying to his parents that he
The City
The City by C.P. Cavafy You said: “I’ll go to another country, to another shore, find another city better than this one. Whatever I try