Ryan Mills: “Poem”

Poem Then his pancakes come and I’m likePlease leave the flowers—and really, after his question(“have you ripped a big one … More

Poetry by Philip Schaefer: “Radial Glow”

Radial Glow In the America of my fistthe rats drew blood. You let them. You soaked mewith hydrogen saying don’twince, … More

Imperative It is night and the feeling is coming on again. You know the one. There are rules for dealing … More

*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Patrick Williams is a poet and academic librarian living in Central New … More

Object Erotica —for Steve Oristaglio There is a foosball table in a New Jersey summer home. There is a grand … More

The Sloth Girl Sloth Girl lived at the top of a very tall tree in a great forest. Upon Sloth … More

Dossier #1 It’s the year of less-than-half the true extent of time. There is water on the moon And on … More

Rhizome OneYou exit the long or short corridor and enter a hexagonal room with a door on each wall. A … More

A Dream Is a Witch Your Heart Makes (Music for Shame) Ask not how you could ever make it right.Instead, … More

Runner’s Paradise I’m taking up running, I tell my husband at breakfast. My husband smiles though his juice. Adam is … More

*Ed.’s Note: click image to view larger size. Catoblepas Matt Kish is a self-taught artist and librarian. He was born … More

Hatchet Came down from the hills to findthe thaw refrozen, ground even harderthan before, and this in late March: twist … More

Hard We were born hard. We own a pit bull. We don’t eat much. We’re quiet. If you saw us … More

Mathematics IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Start with one body, and one sky. End with the sky in the body, and one sky. The … More

The First Engineer learned momentum from falling birds, howthey hit the water faster than the fish could dielearned that trees … More