How many have I done from a mile away? Tell me how is justice social? Where is its media outcry? I have worked since I was eleven. I earned a library as I spent the last digits of my credit rating. That is okay. Credit is measured in different orbits: obituaries, street sweepers, gazebos, glaciers, […]
Poetry
This Is Meaning
Just Ten Minutes Left
by Peter Burzynski
Your low errand. Remember all the bras you’ve seen? How about that one with the lace? Eat your food and forget your gods. The cat lays next to you as a troublesome ox. It is less of a vigil, with that rouge of him lying next to you, innocently licking scabs. Ill things were said […]
Paper Swan
by Paul Adler
Pretend we are not dying and that the rocking horse remembers all our laughter as if to love were always to be recorded. Families of stars separate in the sky and holding you I remember that all the iron in a human body can make two small nails. Two small nails: one for each wrist, […]
Aporia
by Paul Adler
The blurred cypress has its own quiet math as you speed divine with the white tongue of a cloud descending to lick a strip mall. Motion is a means to forget, so that each fluorescent burst of brush is erased, so that all night cities are replaced by brighter versions of themselves. A small benevolence, […]
Nonfiction Fiction
by Siddhartha Sebastian Larsson
I apologize, as of now, yes, right now, I apologize for that, although I want to be in this text, this prosaic, polemics, poetics, it’s so wrong, really, that I too will be seen, so I ‘re sorry, and I apologize for some incomprehensible pieces that will meet your eyes, but it’s so nowadays, so […]
Totally Undone but Singing
by P. J. Williams
for Shuqualak, Mississippi Whereas the sea creates music, the sky can also bend to the ground & strum the earth apart, leave it totally undone but singing. Afterward, the space the storm leaves between ground & cloud fills with saw teeth & spinning lights. They have a way of cleaning things— of rubbing the sky […]
Restoration
by David R. Slavitt
In Prisov, not far from Košice, a shul or rather an exhibit of itself restored, except of course for its congregation, is open for tourists to visit and inspect. On a wall are photographs of what it looked like when the Nazis stabled horses in its wreck, which is just how they should have left […]
Orville Wright and the Bomb
by Joshua Preston
“I have never been a strong advocate of bombing from aeroplanes. I certainly would not like to see the Allies adopt the German’s barbarous policy of dropping bombs among the civilians where no military advantage is to be gained.” — Letter dated August 1, 1917 “I once thought the aeroplane would end wars. I now wonder […]
The Neighbors Talk About Our Adoption
by Joseph Mills
i. The Old Woman on the Right She says that we’ve done a good thing that our daughter is lucky, and we’ll be blessed, and I want to say, Fuck you, you racist old bat. I want to say, Aren’t you afraid about the nigger music that will come from our house now? After all, […]
Trilingual Queer Love Song: A Manifesto
by Seth Michelson
Tonight it hits me y de repente I’m struck by acid understanding: assimilation es una trampa de los devotos de la ausencia. I mean, quién de nosotros would lust wildly for her own disappearance? We must speak nuestras lenguas or cease to exist, correcto? So our tongues flicker-trip over linguistic borders, spitting blue-green fire with […]
