by Mark Zimmermann | May 16, 2019 | Magazine Article
—Hyogo-ken, June 1991 Because her hands driftedin a pantomime of flightrising and floatingin one sweeping arcunspooling the paperacross the spotless bladethat ran the length of the roll, because the paper risingalong with her handsabove the wooden counterwas...
by Dasha Kelly Hamilton | May 16, 2019 | Magazine Article
I see youTrying to snip yourselfFree from the clash of fabric patternsOutsize the outline of your fierceand stunning soulCoast be not oceanEdge be not your endI smell the salt water in your conversationA slow leak of truth from the corners of your grin I see...
by Dasha Kelly Hamilton | May 16, 2019 | Magazine Article
Peer into the satchel of fabricsPlush and darkSoft and unforgiving,Hand to hand, pass stitched and muffled suffering We lay down our best attempts atAligning ourselves, random and divinedOur tiles slide one over the otherPuzzling our perspectivesInto crossword...
by Kiyoko Reidy | Feb 21, 2019 | Magazine Article
the day before they found her baby tuckedinto that crawlspace for safekeeping,i sat on the kitchen floor in front of her,just two houses down from my own,knobbed bones of her knees dimpling my backwhile she tugged my hair into cornrows—racing stripes down my little...
by Nathan Reid | Feb 21, 2019 | Magazine Article
My brother’s buying some late night drive-thru tacosfinds an empty parking lottakes two bites and starts to choke on his tearsthrows the meat and shells onto cracked concrete. He cries, confined in his self-made solitudebecause he’s lost and fat and feels too old at...
