He could imagine the way the metal-hitting-wood would echo through the darkened rooms in the middle of the night, bouncing off the worn wooden floors from downstairs to upstairs, her body tensing in the bed beside him.
C. Kubasta
C. KUBASTA is the author of the chapbooks A Lovely Box and &s, the full-length collections All Beautiful & Useless and Of Covenants (poetry, Whitepoint Press), and Girling (a novella, Brain Mill Press). She is active with the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, coordinates the Lake Reading Series at the Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts, and serves as Assistant Poetry editor with Brain Mill Press. Her work explores place (the Midwest), the body (our imperfect perfect flesh), and language (its slippages). Read more about her and her work at ckubasta.com. Follow her @CKubastathePoet.
Shedding
The Covenant of User Agreeements
by C. Kubasta
“Many of our passwords are suffused with pathos, mischief, sometimes even poetry.” I do not know what I am agreeing to when I am agreeing yet I click the button that signifies I agree. In the aftermath of tragedy, you may get a call, asking personal questions: “What is your wedding anniversary? Tell […]
Contributor Bios for Issue 12 Winter 2018
Issue 12 Winter 2018 RUTH AWAD is an award-winning Lebanese-American poet whose debut poetry collection, Set to Music a Wildfire, won the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize from Southern Indiana Review Press. She is the recipient of a 2016 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and her work has appeared in New Republic, The Missouri Review Poem of the Week, Sixth […]
MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 12 Winter 2018
INTERVIEWS Eric Shonkwiler interviewed by David Bowen Power & Light Juan Gelacio interviewed by Robert Joe Stout Invisible on Paper ESSAYS Leonard Kress What Kind of Parent Lets a Thirteen-Year-Old Cancel Her Bat Mitzvah? Erinn Seifert Changing FICTION Mollie Boutell Intimates Malcolm Cumming Mere Anarchy Liz Egan Sgt. Lawson Brian Kamsoke Useful Things POETRY Ruth […]
