Issue I

Night Sweats Jewish graves desecrated. Dogs and other animals eating the corpses. Not everything is a metaphor for something else. […]

Ball is Round Damn cold air woke me up this morning.  The wind blew so hard, my cardboard mat started

She Had her bright face — still, the light shined behind her in that purfle. I contacted her face &

Change of Venue  At first, Lance’s biggest worry was that he would be late, that his plane would not land

With A Calendar In Fading Light I Remember Amiri Baraka If we are bound to each other it’s by a

Bagatelle In A-Major When I was ten my mother drove me to piano lessons every Wednesday. My piano teacher was

The Ship Song  My ship is strong and carries all My friends and family with me. The sea can’t wreck

The Boyfriend Hailey didn’t have a boyfriend. That was what she told everybody, not realizing nobody cared.  Simone struggled to

The Scent of the Hand Soap Is Called “Leaves” Along the west perimeter of the parking garage, the side opens

Alexa I got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. No, not because of anything that had