Category:Volume 4

Friction

Lacey Daley

I dance with people who are older than me. Someone told me years ago never to try it, but here I am, cooped up in ballrooms and dance clubs cavorting with people often three times my age. I can’t stop.…

loose strife

Amy Quan Barry

Amy Quan Barry        Embarassingly it was just outside the tunnels. / One American dollar bought you one bullet. / Consequently I did it because I could. / A few hundred miles west in Cambodia / ...

Occupations

Brian Burt

There’s an old high school buddy of mine / who liked to sketch dead things and who / when his dad lost the farm—all the land, / ...

What I Was Trying to Say Was

Brian Burt

Gloveless hands searching pockets of a wool overcoat on the way to meeting. / Next to a church, a puddle reflecting angels upside down. / ...

Elegy for Our Dog

Amy M. Clark

This morning on waking / you and I were rolled to opposite / edges of our bed, as if trailing our hands / in the waters of two different oceans. / ...

Surf Lesson

Amy M. Clark

“Welcome to my living room,” / he said as she climbed into the cab / of his red Chevy. It was big enough / to remove her pants in, but at the beach / ...

Napoleon

Carolina Ebeid

A weed grows through this feeling: unwanted, / untended prickly milk thistle spreading / ...

XXV. Salobrena

Major Jackson

That stretch of mountains features white windmill / blades whose slow turns are rifles aiming, for I cannot / help but think of Lorca’s killing between here and the village / ...