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dead lion

I had to take a good friend home to his parents he was manic collecting garbage in a rented room and arranging it believing a secret door to god would appear if he got the room just right if everything...

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Coins

I recognize myself least this week. I don’t think about writing, don’t care for it, I think about God is Love and mint it on my copper-nickel eyes where no great faces are minted, no great women I...

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Imbolc

Even polar, we graft together. I wrench my neck to sky. What grey. These are my articles of faith: the land conceiving food to feed our child. I’m a simple nun to that. We’ve no memory of thaw, but...

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Lament of the Chinese Paddlefish

One day, there will be no river. The things we think will kill us don’t—not the red-eyed asteroid, not the red-dust waters, not the ice age when I froze beneath the mirror of my sky and the slow, slow...

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Best American Erotica

Talk dirt to me. Tell how bluestem roots near thirty feet. How echinacea saves the bees. I ogle dandelions. Have I told you the things they can do to a body?  Will you truss my grain mill to my bike?...

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The Way We Swear It

Bodily. By kelp & wakame. By small, oily fish. To save an ocean, we will leave it. To save our ground, we’re planting bluestem, then burning. Being woman, I know to shed, to go toward new moon like...

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Szeged

After our parents we were fffffffffffall mouth****a salt hunger. Led our animals on ropes jjjjjjjjjjjjthrough ashy streets gathering water****I carried mmmmyou****on my back the weather****a procession...

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Introduction

“We were wanderers from the beginning…” chime the opening lines to Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space. Renowned astronomer Carl Sagan begins his book about exploring the cosmos with a...

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29 Feet Per Square Meter

39 x 39 inches, twigs, wire, red tape, 2013 14 chickens per square meter inside a ventilated shed is considered free range in Australia. The USDA only requires that the animal has access to the...

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Issue Nine, October 2014

Introduction by guest curator Cecilia Llompart Verse: Ansley Clark – “Szeged” Aubrey Ryan – “The Way We Swear It,” “Best American Erotica,” “Lament of the Chinese Paddlefish,” and “Imbolc” Chesley...

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