By Court Ludwick
Morning of the twentieth, there is a universe on my wall. Just kidding it is only a burning square of light. Just kidding it is not quite burning. In the square, there are shadows of swaying leaves… Read More
by Jonathan Diaz
First, get some scrap of garbage
and bind to it a fragment
of your memory. A flattened
can will serve well. Paint the scene
of your calamity as best you can…
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By Finola Cahill
I cook fresh artichoke—a head boiled bald,
butter melted in the day’s bragging heat.
The garlic bathes, my teeth glean flesh from each
earry lobe of bract, skin spit back to bin
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By Mela Blust
1. a nuthatch brings his wife to the potted bleeding hearts my mother gave me. it hangs on the front porch, vibrant red blooms beside the glass door. i watch in wonder as they prepare the nest so close to the domicile of another creature. i smile to myself, thinking they must feel we offer protection. later, i am damned to a life of sitting up all night in the old wicker chair, relocating the black snake twined around the
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by M. E. Silverman
Defining the Third Element
Lith i um [‘liTHēəm] n. 1. Chemistry: soft metal that burns moon-white, lightest of the alkali, travels by river, swims in healing springs; reacts with our own carbon dioxide in Oxygen Masks, bends into plane, train, bike, and battery; comes from Greek meaning stone, gift, soother—symbol: Li, discovered in 1817 by a Swedish scientist—atomic weight: 6.939, tends to haunt Australia’s stretch, in Chile’s leg, and Bolivia’s heart.
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By Michael Lauchlan
We were shingling in the drizzle
of another century—I guess
we needed the money—and Mel
called out. He was sliding
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