Osmazome

Osmazome

briefcases into the dinosaur, counterfactual jackals slavering centipedes in stone: that’s a fine spelunking! way to beak the ink face, gerrymander. to press always fibers between plate glass, a way to break snakeskin boots in! swiftly, madeleine, that’s an unzippered...
Discourse of Discourses

Discourse of Discourses

Griselda waits. Child eater. Good wife. The stories we are told as childrenleave mute tethers, limning the interiorof grey matter, the hollowed synapse. I remember Thumbelina: I too was small; prey-mate to mouse, mole.I remember Bluebeard: I too was curious; opening...
Clone doesn't get any sleep

Clone doesn't get any sleep

clone keeps a diaryclone writes in codeclone taunts me We’d moved halfway across the country, clone says, my wife and I, I hadn’t yet been firedand she undiagnosed, after I walked her to work I wandered past the lake, a marching bandat practice, drums in the wind and...
Wisconsin Road Trip

Wisconsin Road Trip

A year ago I was doing what any sane adult does on a sub-zero night in Eau Claire: sharing a plate of fried cheese curds and ordering a second round at Houligan’s. When my cell phone went into spasms for the fourth time, I stepped over to the coat rack, and among...
The Map of What Happened, by Susan Elbe

The Map of What Happened, by Susan Elbe

I grew up in Chicago. And whenever I meet someone else from there, I feel like we have an immediate connection. We may never explore the reason for this connection, explore the experiences we share. All we know is that we did share them, and that makes us different...