Everyone knew about Max’s obsession with Justin Bieber, so they didn’t want to hang out with him. They felt they were given no choice. When a boy you’ve gone to school with for most of your short lives turns from
FROM American Hours
To begin as if found, these grounds of life and cups that startle each day out of the past’s fountain, that we believe not when but where we can, cycles of doubt and fervent appearances of a beginning called out
Aftermaths (Three Stories)
1 Today we made a bonfire. Your story in things, its cross-stitched lie, up in smoke. Face wily on every channel—you when you sneaked up, surprised me; you when you squealed and ran, said “Boo!” 2 It isn’t until Fifth
Featured Visual Artist Issue #16
We can manipulate physical space by means of focusing the eye on varying highlights and shadows; this duality of forces – this play on negative space – is the drive behind my choice to integrate light into the art. When
My Body, A Hospital
This is not as I expected. In this mess, you shall not miss me, I have decided. Ready for war, Such fireworks, they upset me. Blood falls down. Oh, how I envy you! You are always there As roots cling
When Starkness Borne and Born
Winter went riling against hard grains of moxie, cotton failed to bud, and dovekies tangled in casters of wind. So, I, too, will nudge into the dusk with its black, dripping stars; thirst my lips with malt and smoke, pulses
Marbled Murrlet in Flight
I stood alone at the salt edge, mukluk with lug soles dwelt ripples of the Pacific in broad lines, stirring engines of self- war. A marbled murrelet shot out from the corduroy nest of the ocean, smattering close to the
The Pleasure of Ulteriority
Edward A. Dougherty‘s fourth collection of poems Grace Street is available from Cayuga Lake Books. In 2015, he published Everyday Objects (Plain View) and his fifth chapbook, House of Green Water (FootHills Publishing), and in May 2015, his emblems (small
FROM Ozark Crows
Carolyn Guinzio’s most recent collection is SPINE (Free Verse Editions, Parlor Press, 2016). Find her online at carolynguinzio.tumblr.com
Where All Affirmations and Denials Converge
Edward A. Dougherty‘s fourth collection of poems Grace Street is available from Cayuga Lake Books. In 2015, he published Everyday Objects (Plain View) and his fifth chapbook, House of Green Water (FootHills Publishing), and in May 2015, his emblems (small