"They Once Met Young Elvis at the Dessau Dance Hall" by Jess Levens
He asked her out in junior high, and they were inseparable for seventy-one years—he loved her thoughtfully and sincerely. Dementia had...
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Jan 22, 20231 min read
"The Confectioner" by Francesca Leader
His last name was Sugar. At least that’s what I thought, until he wrote the characters on a napkin, and showed me, with his grass-fluid...
Jan 22, 20231 min read
"The Black Widow" by Courtenay Schembri Gray
How is it up there in your rectory of plated gold? Your arms—torn spaghetti strings—reach down to disturb the guts of what you’ve...
Jan 22, 20231 min read
"The Ice Knife" by Jane Zwart
An impractical weapon: it drips, but never gore, and its birchwood hilt will hardly fill a child’s hand. I cannot eat a popsicle, though—...
Jan 22, 20231 min read
"you are cold" by Constance Bacchus
whiteout near waterville on the way to work, on the way home, a tunnel the road has disappeared, the snow ruts have smoothed & cold, you...
Jan 22, 20232 min read
"Aisle Three" by Karen Grose
I plod down the street to the corner a walker as my guide careful to navigate the cracks on the sidewalk, heat bouncing off the pavement....
Jan 22, 20231 min read
"A New Year" by Alison Lubar
The difference in mourning and morning is you. Dawn takes away anything “our”s, transforms it to “or,” a choice between two, as usual....
Jan 22, 20231 min read
"Spring" by Allison Thung
The flakes of your love keep landing on my bare skin and dissolving before I can collate them. Two clutches I’ve salvaged are already...
Jan 22, 20231 min read
"January" by Robert Allen
the sun’s a long yellow scarf pull it down to dress warm for the chill
Jan 8, 20235 min read
"Most Days, Dystonia is a Background Hum", "Composite Sketch" & "Just a Bird" by Margaret King
Most Days, Dystonia is a Background Hum Most days, dystonia is a constant background hum, Others, a Beethoven symphony But episodically,...
Jan 8, 20231 min read
"PUNICA GRANATUM" by G.L. Maverick
only the finest of china for this trauma so i grab the best of my mother’s bowls wash it twice with wine & honey before chipping teeth on...
Jan 8, 20232 min read
"We Watched a Dog Die on the Weekend of a Wedding" & "A Waking Thought" by Aaron G. H.
We Watched a Dog Die on the Weekend of a Wedding We sat -my daughter and I- on a park bench eating a snack. A treat after a long walk; a...
Jan 8, 20231 min read
"Trick Grammar" by Alison Heron Hruby
after the song “Pink Venom” by BLACKPINK Thick edge of paradox no other appeal to sex quite as persuasive: four women sing syllepsis,...
Jan 8, 20232 min read
"the rose colored villa" by w v sutra
all green was the name in the house where they lived rose colored it was and full of anxiety hamlet and papa hamlet fell out because...
Jan 8, 20231 min read
"Threnody" by Romain P.-A. Delpeuch
Then, slumber wrapped my brain in fog. The sun, in hiding, shrouded black, escaped my reach. Atop secluded heights it shone for others,...
Jan 8, 20232 min read
"brain games" & "december" by Samantha Rowling
brain games With a tiny little hammer And a tiny little chisel I am going to straddle you (The way you like) And crack open your skull...
Jan 8, 20231 min read
"The Truth About Lairs" by Jonathan Petley
I’d dupe them all with my clever green disguise, A mere man, mingling among brooding beasts. No—it was worse. For the bar was cursed, A...
Dec 26, 20223 min read
"Awakening," "Valentine," "Anniversary," & "Throne" by Siân Killingsworth
Awakening the bed shifts as we turn pastel sheets draped trailing to the floor like statuary a show of modesty overthrown the sun dazzles...
Dec 26, 20223 min read
"Before," "Amnesty," & "Brittney Griner Is Waiting To Be Free" by Joshua Merchant
Before when my mother is pregnant with my father’s first wish and second blessing, he doesn’t know how long the cab ride she called for...
Dec 26, 20221 min read
“Switching Gears” by Karen Grose
my brother is off to school, backpack over a shoulder eyes glued to the phone in hand white buds dangling from his ears. he doesn’t turn...
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