epub |eng | 2022-10-18 | Author:Jesse Thistle [Thistle, Jesse]

A NICE MEAL In the Byward Market there’s a fancy seafood restaurant. I’d sit outside and panhandle catching patrons one by one. I vowed if I ever cleaned up, found ...

epub |eng | | Author:Semezdin Mehmedinović

WAR PROFITEERS We’ve begun to distance ourselves from those “social structures” that—during the first days of the war—allowed someone, with no sense of guilt or shame, to walk into a ...

epub |eng | 2020-02-15 | Author:James Richardson

Parks Department It had no other name, my paper-stabber, an ice pick jammed thick end in a broom handle, or the job I loved for a summer, paper-stabber, spearing cups ...

epub |eng | 2022-07-02 | Author:Harold Whit Williams

To Larry Ducey Driving In His Weather Our final Irish morning lowered temps And somberly rained. Those days and days of sun Had dazzled pasty locals. They’d shed their tops ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-26 | Author:David Baker

I’ve been content to work in peace beside my life’s surprising love, to keep the cardinals throbbing in our close cattails and frogs at home in a splash of breathable ...

epub |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:D. Nurkse [Nurkse, D.]

Could our voices reach the child doing cartwheels on the jetty, frantically as he grew tiny, and then turning away, and the Airedale turning also, you swore it half-shrugged— a ...

epub |eng | 2019-12-03 | Author:Jared Singer [Singer, Jared]

TOXICITY Super glue was originally intended as an emergency field suture to prevent soldiers from bleeding to death. The project was a partial success— it kept them from bleeding to ...

epub |eng | 2020-01-15 | Author:Asiya Wadud

9.The Upper Great Highway is dusted in a quite fine film of sand and the high, steep dunes block the view of Ocean Beach. The dunes are pocked with delicate, ...

epub |eng | 2021-01-15 | Author:Ross John Farrar

Pity the Backseat I didn’t wash my hands all day after touching you. I went through that bus station & into the subway, then home. There you were, still all ...

epub |eng | | Author:James Kimbrell

by the dispatch operator. I hold her head back and repeat each fact: she’s thirty-two, no heart attacks, not diabetic, not in a wreck. She wears her black hair pulled ...

epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Reginald Dwayne Betts

Ode to a Kite & they rename you kite, as if a word can make wings. You are a piece of paper tied to string, singing like a schoolgirl. The ...

epub |eng | 2020-11-17 | Author:Kwame Alexander

we can’t see our home we can’t breathe the air WE CAN’T SPEAK OUR NAME WE CAN’T KEEP OUR TONGUE WE CAN’T LEARN TO READ we can’t be in love ...

epub |eng | | Author:Neil Astley

Cushy Number Much desired landscape loved keenly several lifetimes Our unregenerated soil-heap hillsides, bleak and bare of plastic life: one everyday religion. Your ghost spindrifts in the lead-crusted law, in ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jim Harrison

On my desk two indisputably great creations: duct tape and saltine crackers. The red-naped sapsucker doesn’t know its name is silly. Oh you white guys, again. In a pasture, wild ...

epub |eng | 2017-09-02 | Author:William Brewer

WHAT WE CAN REPLACE —What’s the last thing you remember of fear? Someone threw my head into a wall. And the dust of my teeth burst forth, falling like fake ...