Issue 61: 03 May 2018

/Issue 61: 03 May 2018

Two Poems by D. R. James

By | 2018-05-02T13:52:24-07:00 May 3rd, 2018|Categories: Issue 61: 03 May 2018|Tags: , |

Still It all recurs for the maimed, how they remain, or don’t, atop the plots of the buried. Those who could do something table the question. They relax in the rocker of their certainty, a war, any war, an abstraction that walls off the bursting specifics. A twenty-something friend found he’d deployed to sort body [...]

What You Need to Know

By | 2018-05-02T13:31:47-07:00 May 3rd, 2018|Categories: Issue 61: 03 May 2018|Tags: , |

By Kristi Rabe   My 11-year-old son tried to stab me with his fork. This was 5 seconds after calling me a stupid bitch. 15 seconds after I told him to go to time out. 33 seconds after I found he had played with a lighter and snuck candy from the cupboard. 1 minute after he [...]

National Day of Atonement

By | 2018-05-03T08:53:25-07:00 May 3rd, 2018|Categories: Issue 61: 03 May 2018|Tags: , |

By Marc Alan Di Martino   Scream at the empty mirror of the sky, the waiting blue, the blinding cosmic eye, until your pain lathes the Plutonian rim of the Solar System. Scream at the crystal ceiling of the sky until it cracks up like an electoral map of the United States, our jagged earthly cry [...]

Trophies and Ribbons

By | 2018-05-02T13:34:41-07:00 May 3rd, 2018|Categories: Issue 61: 03 May 2018|Tags: , |

By Victoria Barnes   On a late November morning toddlers and children drag their parents’ silky purses stuffed with glossy trophies and ribbons to the sewing room. They embroider golden monograms, add coats-of-arms in crewel, tie silver coins that dangle from purse seams. Their parents nod. By the rose evening the children sing quietly of imaginary gardens with [...]