Stacy R. Nigliazzo Petal Fold The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain but he does not know his patient’s dreams. –Richard Selzer The blade steps through the door of her abdomen, spills across the lake— paper wings, the splayed ribs of a pine boat. Stacy R. Nigliazzo‘s debut poetry collection Scissored Moon […]
Read MoreStacy R. Nigliazzo Mountain Fold We culled the nettle from her lung— she flew, a red kite rowing a pleat of light, unthreaded eye. Stacy R. Nigliazzo‘s debut poetry collection Scissored Moon was published in 2013 by Press 53 (srnigliazzo.com)
Read MoreMegan Merchant The hospital intake form wants me to declare a religion. When I was nine, I let a patch of dandelions grow by the church-white walls so they too could be scolded for beauty and when dried, cursed for undressing under the sky. Megan Merchant is either happily lost in the tall pines, or […]
Read MoreJohn Hawkhead Under a streetlight a lone bat flies back and forth sketching infinity. John Hawkhead is a writer and illustrator from the South West of England whose book Small Shadows is available from Alba publishing.
Read MoreJohn Hawkhead Watching snails mate in coils of shared slime we aim our barbs. John Hawkhead is a writer and illustrator from the South West of England whose book Small Shadows is available from Alba publishing.
Read MoreCameron Morse The Lamppost There is, at dusk, that precise moment as the bicycles creak through near darkness when a bouquet of light bulbs is presented from the wrought iron stalk. Cameron Morse taught and studied in China. Diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2014, he is currently a third-year MFA candidate at UMKC and […]
Read MoreER Underbrink Kiss Our lips became graveyards: we buried our pasts in each other, because for the first time, I felt how church bells sound, ringing over faded gray stones. ER Underbrink is a man studied in failure, and holding on.
Read MoreLisa DeSiro Minus +1 At this garden party, among partners & husbands & wives & boyfriends & girlfriends, and a couple of bees pollinating butterfly bushes, and a pear tree bearing fruit in pairs, I take comfort from a lone marigold showing her brave face among the weeds. Information about Lisa DeSiro, including a link […]
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