There’s a cove. A house straggles a sagging beach, where behind a patched blind the Hendrix version of All Along the Watchtower sends its summons through the wave speakers. God …
Safety of shells (Meredith Pitt)
Bivalves diffuse force to their outer edges while screw-shaped shells send the pressure to their outer rings The soft creature is protected from the crushing reality of a weapon in …
Breaking News (Justin Lowe)
there had been no end of rumours of a coup. plates kept clattering in the palace kitchen, the linen-beaters worked strange hours, people began to talk of a giant stalking …
Madera Ranchos (Emily O’Grady)
I eat Peach Jewels warmed on a tea-stained paper plate, fleshy centres rich as yolk— yellow shell flakes and falls like confetti on insect-flecked cement. And though the copper lab …
The Sandpiper (Gregory Piko)
I have flown a wide open ocean where waves break and boil like crested terns in a rookery I have flown a sweeping plain where grasses sway on the breeze …
On the Freeway (Yuan Changming)
Driving through a forest I saw a deer Standing alone still Like what I wish to watch: Every human is so busy Passing by Changming Yuan, a nine-time Pushcart …
HIS MANY MOUTHS (Angela Gardner)
Monkey king stretches his four hands out to the sun love and desire his radiant avenue. Nothing goes through this fire :the huge expanse, cramping his hands for the monsters. Above, …
Elevation (Ode to Frisco) (Emily Brugman)
In the Tenderloin A man with bloodied foot Yelled that middle class women Outside Amoeba Your mum — visiting for three weeks Stepped on a human shit And it was entertaining …
A RENDERING OF GENES (Ramon Loyola)
My hair is not black but dark brown It has streaks of white and old strands A rendering of unfortunate genes and Of old age and memories and regret The …
The Hunger (Ian McBryde)
Orchid Queen of corollas, borne up on the deep green roll of foliage. Your hunger is showing. One last tremble has opened your shoulders, bold as a whore. You are …