Category: Published Issues
What Bread to Eat
by Taylor Mali I don’t want to tell you what you already know so I won’t tell you you’re going to die. Even so there was a time when such a
The Entire Act of Sorrow
by Taylor Mali Because men murder their wives every day; because when a woman dies and it looks like a tragic accident, a botched burglary or
Memorize This Sentence for Casual Use in Conversation
by Taylor Mali If you were the type of person who could, without the slightest hesitation, open your mouth and utter forth one beautiful sentence
Maine Burial Plot
by Thomas R. Moore Granite posts square a God’s acre, a tiny plot of blueberries and asters beside a crushed– stone drive to three new
In the Gully
by Thomas R. Moore After I set my book aside and turned off the Sox in the fifth when Ortiz whiffed for the second time, I dreamed of whales,
Will
by John Driscoll, M.D. This morning I sank into myself Putting aside the cigarettes and whiskey I dropped like a stone leaving but a vanishing
Ventriloquist
by John Driscoll, M.D. He whispered seamlessly to his wooden man whose lips moved, eyes bobbed and who was painted into a black suit effortlessly
Urban Hymn
by Dan Murphy — Es mejor vestir Santos que desvestir borrachos
Eve of the Battle, Take II.
by Dan Murphy He’s hungry, I think and like a combine will eat anything. Wheat, grasshoppers. Dirt clods. Or like an ocean, swollen, its
MOVING VIOLATION
by Paul Muldoon WE WERE BUMPER TO BUMPER DOWN BY THE OUTLET MALL YOU PUSHED THROUGH IN A JUMPER TWO SIZES TOO SMALL I CAN’T ISSUE A FINE LIKE A