O love, how did you get here? O embryo Remembering, even in sleep, Your crossed position. I didn’t call you. I didn’t call you at all. Love, love, the low …
He auditioned for Romeo (Tarion Keelan)
My life was becoming more and more real in this new world that I had found for myself, and some days even passed without me thinking of David. But when …
ishmael (Mark Roberts)
coming at dawn to swim in the ocean baths they find a dead whale half the size of the pool floating like a cut puppet fins & tail tugged by …
Bloodbaths and Romance: Lenny Bartulin’s Infamy (Robert Goodman)
Review by Robert Goodman The Western is making a comeback. That venerable tradition of horses, six-shooters and life on the frontier is being reimagined in a more visceral form. From …
The Expatriate (Laura Jean McKay)
I hail a motodop. He’s like, ‘Four dollars.’ And I say, ‘No, I live here, it’s two and a half.’ And he asks, ‘There and back?’ I’m …
Competition (Robert Verdon)
sad regions stretch like backyards visited long ago like the tongue encountering an icicle like Jacob in Blake’s painting they loll under the charcoal moon in the hush of the …
Elementals (Stuart Barnes)
Who are these people at the bridge to meet me? They are the villagers— Two. Of course there are two. First, are you our sort of person? The word of …
Rich Evocations of Harsh Realities: Paul Hetherington’s Six Different Windows (Robyn Cadwallader)
Review by Robyn Cadwallader Paul Hetherington’s eighth and latest collection of poetry, Six Different Windows, offers the reader the assurance of being in the hands of a thoughtful, intelligent poet. …
Benefits of Anticipatory Grief (Janet Frishberg)
I’ve forgotten my voice waiting for her to die. I came to say goodbye but I don’t believe it’s time yet and neither does she. Six days ago in San …
Six Untitled Poems (Bekah Steimel)
I. A woman like a swallow’s throat not curled up but slumped suicidal gestures always take too much energy and crash upon the wrong ears this time your own heard …