by Amy Fichter | Nov 11, 2016 | Magazine Article
Voice: the breath’s tooth.Thought: the brain’s bone.Birdsong: an extension of the beak.Speech: the antler of the mind.—Robert Bringhurst, from Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology, by David Abrams As the animals go, we go. The photographs in Remnants are of...
by Georgia Ressmeyer | Nov 10, 2016 | Magazine Article
Yesterday morning I’m pretty sure it was yesterdayI started walking along the beach toward someone whowould meet me at my destination. Where it was orwho it was I can’t remember off the top of my head. I walked that way a hundred times before and knewmy feet would...
by Cynthia Belmont | Nov 10, 2016 | Magazine Article
Cancer is not a ringing bell,a queen of spades. Cancer is notyour mother’s hand-me-down, strung likepearls along the lymph nodes,smoky quartz clustered in the caving lung,opals singing their blues in the neurons,a solitaire promise kept by the breast,a little story of...
by Richard Roe | Nov 10, 2016 | Magazine Article
I’m sitting on a park bench noodling linesfrom a Billy Stayhorn song, Somethingto Live For, “watching the noon crowds,”when a woman bumps me with her hip.“How are you,” she asks, and I chokeon a high note, “Marilyn.” She smilesthe same shy smile she offered at an...
by Peter Burzynski | Nov 10, 2016 | Magazine Article
Mom said, Kiss her hand.I didn’t want to kiss my teacher;especially not on the bulginggreen vein of her thin hands.I think she had red hair. She waskind. She sent a memo home:the boys shouldn’t drop their pantsall the way when using the urinal. “Fathersteach zippers...
