By JJ Peña my high school teacher’s words: you have to start planning for the future. it falls, plop! right on your head, whether you like it or not. normal…
By Summer J. Hart We practice cartwheels on the lawn. Bright red summer birds pluck insects out of the air. I slip on my jellies even though they blister my…
By Epiphany Ferrel My silver-laced Wyandotte hen has gotten broody. She’s been sitting on the nest for 38 hours and she won’t let the other hens in to lay their…
By Epiphany Ferrell 1. She was a dog groomer and he had an Airedale terrier that bit everyone who attempted to pluck his coat as the dog breed standards suggest.…
By Ashley cline you howl— & split my lip like watermelons / left on the neon vine, fat & summer-drunk off / plutonium & moonshine you howl— & bite my…
By Christina beasley The anatomy of the sea anemone is intricate. I swam through one's thick mouth and met miles of burial ground: grave upon grave, a delicate smog and…
by charles kell I. Read the instructions as if they are the landscape. Stand straight at the open window with black boots hugging your feet. Make a crescent from your…
By Robert Ball The first time you entrust your life to the strength of your fingertips curled over a half-inch ledge, you will feel the spark she was supposed to…
By JJ Peña when i think of dying, icarus comes to mind: a winged angel comet-ing from the sky in a triple helix, unable to move or stop his descent.…
By Lindsey Baker When we didn’t go out into the new neighborhood at night, we spent hours on Tammy’s computer in her big room on the empty side of the…
By James Braun Listen to our father. He is a screen door rattling hinges, hauling in cedar split for us brothers beside the burnt-away coals of our wood stove. Hear…
By anita goveas You can say it’s just a scrape but these are my favourite purple cowhide leather shoes, and do you think purple shoes grow on trees, or you…