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“And Also I Ran” by Lance Larsen
Lance Larsen AND ALSO I RAN I wheedled a ten-minute visit from the night nurse. This was Friday, the evening after my best friend hurtled through a windshield at 70 mph, the day before I drove to a...
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“Greener Pastures” by Jessica Lee
Jessica Lee GREENER PASTURES I was embarrassed by the way my dog Daisy licked herself so openly, with no shame, whether she was sprawled in the middle of the lawn or across the kitchen floor, her...
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“Dear Husband” by Austen Leah Rose
Austen Leah Rose DEAR HUSBAND Yesterday I swam into the center of a dark star, the farthest point from every other point, the place where people become shapes along the shore, where a mother...
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“Empty Souls” by Alexis Rotella
Alexis Rotella EMPTY SOULS Tibetan prayer flags flap in the wind no one to talk to Why Tower Air? I ask as my husband packs a suitcase to get ready to attend his mother’s funeral. Because it’s a...
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“Pantoum from the Window of the Room Where I Write” by Alison Townsend
Alison Townsend PANTOUM FROM THE WINDOW OF THE ROOM WHERE I WRITE At sunset the russet oak turns into a lamp. Each polished leaf glows amber, lit by sun. As a child, I raked leaves with my mother each...
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“Buoy” by Debra Marquart
Debra Marquart BUOY And so you came to realize that a married man is like a drowning victim, when you find him drenched, adrift and unhappy in the vast ocean of his marriage. And you are always the...
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“Hitch-Hiking” by Gretchen Steele Pratt
Gretchen Steele Pratt HITCH-HIKING for my sister I let you do the talking, knew it was your blonde hair blanched white with saltwater They pulled to the crab-grassed shoulders of Corn Neck Road for....
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