Further Reading
ALLEY by Paul Crenshaw
Ben and I drink five pitchers of Michelob Light at the bowling alley. Outside, Ben pisses on a car tire. It is Friday, near midnight. On the interstate not far away headlights sweep past. I search for my keys under arc-sodium lights. Ben has a cigarette in his mouth, his head tilted back so the […]
Cryptids
by Marcia Hurlow
Lucky has stopped barking at the squirrels. The sun just risen over the horizon, he’s no longer running across the field after the barn swallows who were diving at him, herding him away from their nests. Lucky has disappeared into the woods, silent except for the scrape and snap of cottonwood saplings, bird […]
Agua De Mayo
by Orland Agustin Solis
translated from the Hiligaynon by Eric Abalajon
Orland Agustin Solis is an emerging poet in Hiligaynon. Using visceral nature themes and urgent verbs, his poems often tackle themes of persistent feudalism especially in Western Visayas, Philippines.
