Header photograph © Andrew Hall.
I hate stillness: the driver and the bus are moving the woman beside me rocks her daughter in her chest. A cold night-sky empty with light as if perpetuating a…
I swear, if I could run to you, smiling and shouting, waving both arms and trying to flag your fading belief down, I would be out there now, calling across…
Header photograph © Marybeth Cohowicz DeYoung.
Header photograph © J. Bish.
the tangy musk of human nature; we adorn it so hypocritically, can you see it? when taboo vessels sway to and fro tight in the maw of confederalism, in a…
My father always gave fighters the first punch. And he would take it, the fist to his nose, before pinning them to the ground. He had to be pried off…
every dream is the same dream at first touch we are ourselves on the other side of the train ten paces from the foothills stopped to smell the jasmine bent…
Make me a high rise under the guise of equality make me a project torn down long ago under the guise of equality make me a mound of broken windows…
paddled up our driveway, our personal Noahs in yellow rain slickers and straw Stetsons, because only our porch light was on. Bags of dirt barricaded the door. Do you need…
Header photograph © Marybeth Cohowicz DeYoung.
At the grocery store, labels indicating their country of origin. This part is the joy; a celebration where the children put the confetti into the cart. Rows and rows of…
(Amaranthus tricolor) six white eggs in a pair of brown hands across a garden wall our Barbadian neighbour smiling welcome the day we moved in in their little yard his…
I. her heritage from here or heavens a heretic hernia herding her heredity hearse II. collage collection collocation of collagen is it collateral ? a college collar collision or a…
He said Let’s put a sticker on the streetlight — one of the ’85 ones no one would swap, the streetlight that stood right by the silver birch, pale as…
