Issue 51: 14 Dec 2017

/Issue 51: 14 Dec 2017

Two Poems by Laura Orem

By | 2018-04-14T16:57:20-07:00 December 14th, 2017|Categories: Issue 51: 14 Dec 2017|Tags: , , , |

Letter from Guantanamo Seasons don’t matter except for the discomfort they bring. June is just hotter. The Caribbean thuds against Cuba, steaming like soup, saltier than our tears, if anyone cried here. Whether we bear it or not, the pain continues. The interrogator takes his work as seriously as Michelangelo considered the perfect pink of [...]

Civil Discourse in the Trumpocalypse

By | 2017-12-12T14:04:20-08:00 December 14th, 2017|Categories: Issue 51: 14 Dec 2017|Tags: , |

By Sara Marchant   My brother Marvin is calling me, and, as usual, I debate whether to answer the phone. My mother claims she never had an affair with Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Larry David, but my brother is so similar to the self-centered, self-absorbed, neurotic nervous maniac David, that I’m not sure I believe her. I [...]