Listen to Carly Stone read from their work as you read along below: https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/mental-dislocation-SAMPLES.mp3 Reality Soup A clove of garlic so big that I can barely get my hand around it. I feel like one of those farmers at the show. Have you seen the picture of the old man who grew the world’s biggest […]

Listen to Brenda Beardsley read her work as you read along below: https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Interpolated-FINAL.m4a [Interval] moth  Night nudges between shade & window. A moth flusters at the screen, needs to be in, while I yearn to be out. Cool air carries a far-away voice. Across the road, reedy, pubescent bodies gather in what is left of […]

GROUNDING IN GLASS FRAGMENTS During the first summer of Covid-19, at the height of the movement for police reform when “defund” still seemed a viable word, my pregnant partner and I took a trip to Georgia’s coast and stayed at an Airbnb in Brunswick where in February Ahmaud Arbery had been murdered in the streets […]

Marin Headlands Military Batteries, Northern California Until the body feels something different, it cannot act differently.—Deane Juhan The wall is four and a half feet thick. I meant to begin: Speaking of violence . . . And I would write about these tunnels. A tunnel allows a silence to be broken.  I’ve entered these as […]

https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/audio_bird_of_one_leah_umansky.mp3   1. My mother always told me that everything is scary the first time you do it. Sometimes, I have to remind myself:   self it’s okay to be scared be scared then, get over it     There are not so many givens anymore.     2.   I just celebrated another Hannukah […]