surrounded by strange trees & prickly bushes & tiny lawns & dangling flowers & so many
rows of succulents & morning light licking the bricks
everywhere
We Are Stardust Meant to Shine
By King Grossman Through the gray blanketing cloudsa breakthrough of silverstop and lookstop everythingwhen the blue dogis most low downfrom out across the Pacificthe beam is there earlier today i’d…
Carolina Wren
Had you gone to the grocery,
you wouldn’t have heard it—
Internal Medicine
By Lynn Glicklich Cohen A doctor’s waiting room—where everyone who came in after you is called first—is a fine place to inspect the quality of your mind. There you may…
One pie, hurry please
I know when I say lemon,
my mouth waters. Anchovy,
my nose crinkles. Let me awaken
your taste buds:
oregano, hot peppers, pepperoni.
Jamaica Bay
When the sea meets the bay, water bursts
like a bomb over docks, breaks the ropes
of fishing boats, knocks them into each other,
smashes their small hulls, rushes up the block
Psalm 133: Two Brothers
By Mark Watney Behold! How gladly22 it is how goodly23 it iswhen two brothers build togetheran earth-dwelling24 a hobbit-hole It is like Mugwort the master-weed25which heals the head and flows…
A Girl in the P.O.
I scan the room for a big brother’s hoodied slouch
or the hard-faced stare of an older sister
with pouting fuchsia lips and bleached-taffy hair.
But it’s just us.