by Louisa Loveridge Gallas | Aug 26, 2014 | Magazine Article
For just one buck this gaudy one-eyedcheap tin crescent moon is mine,lead painted by some ‘artist’ in Beijing,mysterious mythic glamour brought lowby tawdry colors, already chipped,melodramatic, second-rate like some poems end up with no nuance,or substance, poor...
by Dion Kempthorne | Aug 26, 2014 | Magazine Article
To make it fair, we’ll need to wearthe same number or articlesof clothing and decide whethersocks count as one or two and ifrings and watches count at all. Then we’ll need to agree on time,say, to stop every five or ten minutes,to see who’s ahead or behind inrunning...
by Kathryn Gahl | Aug 26, 2014 | Magazine Article
At sixteen, the good kissrelied on pitch-black darknessduring the seventeen-mile ride to our dairy farmafter we won the basketball gameand my point-guard boy danced with me to Oh, Pretty Woman in a dimmed gym—what kinesthesia that dimness held andagain in his...
by Nancy Jesse | Aug 26, 2014 | Magazine Article
She had been here, and now she is gone,leaving her mark like an imprint in snow.Her things are still here, but she has moved on. I’ve kept her books, from Proust to Audubon,see her freckled hand scribbling notes that showshe had once been here, and now she is gone....
by Bruce Dethlefsen | Aug 20, 2014 | Magazine Article
when you diethis lady named alicebut probably karenwalks you across the street she’s wearing an orange stocking capwhite sam browne belt and black galoshesshe carries a stop signa giant red ping pong paddle she looks left and right then left againholds up her sign to...
