Greg Hill Home with Newborn The milk comes out a little bit at a time, slowly, like the days. Greg Hill turns off all the lights in the morning after the kids head downstairs for breakfast, and at night when they’re tucked into bed.
Read MoreJohn Grey In Venice Shoes on cobblestones make such a noise, not loud but old. John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident.
Read MoreIan Willey Middle Age When we got married I vowed I would not become furniture in your home yet here I am now sitting around a bit threadbare and fading. Ian Willey, originally from Akron, Ohio, resides in the Inland Sea area of Japan where he teaches, does research, and writes.
Read MoreBetsy Mars Bedazzled Advance fire like thunder rattles windows and dogs’ souls weeks before the sky is illuminated in an oxidized display of democracy that, in our tranquilized state, we still eagerly await, hungry for our piece of the pie. Betsy Mars and her canine companion are both startled by loud noises.
Read MoreMarianne Szlyk A New Englander Listens to Pet Sounds Listening to the crinkle of a detuned guitar like sunlit leaves on narrow roads, so far from California’s highways around lizard-like mountains basking in the parched sun, I remember riding with my uncle and my father past maple trees, past stone walls, past abandoned tractors in […]
Read MoreTrina Ng Dialysis Thrice a week he is a cyborg, a man in union with a machine as he sits, arms resting on armrests, palms facing the sky as if asking for a favour from God, or the government. Trina Ng thinks that writing about herself in third person is mildly dissociating.
Read MoreIan Willey The Shot Clock There he was with his ball, the clock on its back, glass all over the floor, and I started to lose it, saying how many times this and how many times that, while he stood looking down, eyes bulging and wild, until I paused for breath, and he broke in, […]
Read MoreScott Hughes Perma-Ring People told me that after you wear your wedding band long enough, there would be a permanent indentation on your finger, but what they didn’t tell me, what they may not have even known, is once you leave the ring off how soon your skin forgets. Keep reading, and Scott Hughes will […]
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