Volume 4 Number 2
be constantly shuffling stacks of papers, but never the first or last to leave a place. happen. fill your studio apartment with used books that…
for a. toliver the flowers are wilting. the rosemary wears anger like a leather jacket. i dream: i wake up with jesus, a phone ringing…
The way the women fight for your bed here. Barter for the bed and the mandrakes, the favor of the Lord. The way the sun…
It was not a diet; it was better than a diet. Instead of altering his food intake or spending his lunch breaks on a tread-…
I came here on a boat. It took months. It was a wooden ship with enormous square sails—maybe a schooner; I don’t know. There were…
They had been dating for years although they didn’t see each other very often. When they did see each other they used words like “narcissistic”…
You, who I don’t know how to talk to anymore. You, whose body comes to me in a dream only to be gone as soon…
I lay in bed late at night, sweat filming my upper lip. The view outside the window was entirely black, no hint of dawn. I’d…
My son’s lived in my basement since his wife, two years ago, died of breast cancer. He keeps to himself down there—except when the Sox…
One day Cincinnatus was plowing his fields. A group of senators walked up to him, looking jittery, and he said, “Is everything all right?” The…