The Box
What did you learn from the dead?
To turn cold in stages to stage
bleed an invisible instant goddamn
Letter From Prison #2
us with no light
the dog edging its nose
out the window and snapping the air
Prisoner’s Wreath #2
This charcoal way surrounds my spot in dust
Dusty property the grit of the word
Word it so the song persists in a trust
Sonnet 12: A Dialogue
“Do you know that it really could be cool
Editor’s Note
Lately, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about change. Social. Organizational. Political, obviously. In 2008, we had Aaron Sinift’s Glitter Obama as our cover image. There was a sense of hope for positive change. Depending on your position on the political spectrum, you can argue the effectiveness of changes Obama implemented: hopes fulfilled (Affordable Care […]
Mr. Joo’s Ms. Tae
laura ferris 1. The CEO can’t read a children’s book. The book is a Korean translation of Yuichi Kimura’s The Wolf and The Kid. At one point in the story, the wolf loses his memory of the kid when his pack assaults him for fraternizing. The CEO doesn’t start by not reading this […]
jars
decided to store it in half-pint wide-mouth jars in the corner of the garage
LOVE JINGLES by Iris Cushing
1. To the tune of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” Hawé* Chakra Chautauqua Clan, Thank you for using Sacajawea’s Sap® to reveal the colors of your indigenous Chakra wheel. This Chautauqua Wisdom Formula is what our higher nature uses to distill Spiritflow® from the heirloom energy in our body’s earthroots, and to weave the matrix of […]
The Stamp Collector
Louis had a friend who collected stamps. Years ago, I won a small pot in the Massachusetts lottery and took Louis to Europe, and in every country we visited he bought sheets of postage to mail home to his friend. In Paris, I watched him from a hotel reception desk, choosing a table at an […]
LATE ARCADE
a really cool excerpt
