The UnexpectedThomas McCarthyEarly April suddenly ablaze and unexpected pear blossomAs rampant as de Chardin's sudden forms of life, asDelicate as...
Road MetalTimothy McBride -- for my grandmother, Margaret Kelly"You don't need that," she'd tell us when we'd begTwo cents for...
OtherhoodD. A. PowellI spent a long time preparing to be an other.Evening classes at the church in the basementwith my partner (he wanted to be an oth...
ApplesGillian ClarkeThey fill with heat, dewfall, a night of rain.In a week they have reddened, the seed gone blackin each star-heart. Soft thud of fr...
Baby-sittingGillian ClarkeI am sitting in a strange room listeningFor the wrong baby. I don't loveThis baby. She is sleeping a snufflyRoseate, bub...
ScrapbookKim AddonizioThis is me, depressed out of my mind,frailing the banjo, spilling red wineon the whiteking-sizedluckily-hotel's-and-not-my-g...
Stand by MeDavid St. JohnWhen the solace of angels is named,When the winds blister the academy,When the first lesions of winter lightScrawl their path...
Semblance: ScreensLiz WaldnerA moth lies open and lieslike an old bleached beech leaf,a lean-to between window frame and sill.Its death protects a col...
HoneymoonDorianne LauxWe didn't have one, unless you count Paris,20 years later, after we'd almost given up on the idea.We'd imagined one,...
Thick DescriptionEleanor ChaiI cut lines of ink as I read through the night.I imagine the margins on pages are slim wingsbetween plankton and stars. I...