Category: Published Issues
Vows
by Jim Harrison I feel my failure intensely as if it were a vital organ the gods grew from the side of my head. You can’t cover it with a hat and
A Variation on Machado
by Jim Harrison I worry much about the suffering of Machado. I was only one when he carried his mother across the border from Spain to France in
Streetcar, San Francisco
by Daisy Zamora Streetcar, San Francisco translated from Spanish by George Evans A black guy shakes an empty potato chip can begging
When I See Them Passing By
by Daisy Zamora When I See Them Passing By translated from Spanish by George Evans When I see them passing by I sometimes ask myself: What must
Senior Special en el Tennessee Grill
by Daisy Zamora Senior Special at the Tennessee Grill translated from Spanish by George Evans Here they make landfall
Wishbone
by Kim Addonizio It’s bad luck to break a cricket or a baby, bad to open an evil spirit in the house or refuse a kiss if it’s offered with a pot
In Which Coyote Slums as a Cactus
by Megan Grumbling Entreated with white limbs and gall, he came late, the next morning, glutton that he is for irony, false maidens. Choose your
Deep Cleaning
by Megan Grumbling With broomstick, plumb between the claws’ dark troth of shriveled dregs and trawl it out of there, thing, thought, and all
Bedmaking
by Megan Grumbling I sky it high the white as if a child lay giggling here beneath, breathing the light in billows as it settles,
Black Blood
by Peter Bradley It is such a common occurrence that the eyes of others slide over the sight of it with nary a question or raised eyebrow. As if