The End Of Every Beast The end of every beast is a rhyme and a patch of newly uncovered earth, a …
Barbara Alfaro
Afterwards I didn’t want the tube of toothpaste Victor and I shared to end. At the last, he was too weak to …
James Hanna
Strutting Hog The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense. -Bob Dylan You are alive to the moment—nothing more. …
David Desjardins
JOHNNY SEVEN The two of them slid downhill through the briars in back of the house. There’d been a drought that summer, …
Kathie Giorgio
IF AUDUBON STUDIED FATHERS For almost all of his forty-five years, since he learned to write at age four, Jeff filled notebooks …
Letta Cartlidge
MAMI WATA AND THE BATURI GIRL (Mother Water and the White Girl) The first time Mami Wata saw the baturi girl, the …
Timothy Reilly
HE’S NOT HERE “They knew they were going up to the country whence the shadows fall.” –George MacDonald, “The Golden Key” For …
Frank Diamond
LOVE STORY A nurse comes in, checks the monitor at Jeffrey’s bed. “Comfortable, Jeffrey?” he asks. Jeffrey sighs. “Jeff?” “He’s comfortable,” Alison …
Theresa Hamman
Ear Worm I’m at the stage where I’m humming the thing between lip and lung my breathy tongue slips …