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Before We Give Back the Keys
by Kimmy Chang
You ask if it was empty. / I tell you no one was home.
The Company of Shallow Holes
by Dino Parenti
One unremarkable March day, a man began puncturing random holes in his withered pasture with a post-hole digger.
What I Most Love About God is His Love of Basketball
by Carlos Andrés Gómez
How could I not believe in God / when He loves basketball / this much?
Gravity
by Alexei Varah
I no longer find it romantic, / how fireflies really do look like flickering stars
Deep Winter, Deep Cold
by Hayden Saunier
but there she lay, / bright blue brushstrokes / edged with black / against gleaming, solid white
Ode to My Breasts
by Erika Walker
light a candle, open the window / play your flute / let’s be honest / I don’t know how to do this
Notes to My Father
by Karen Paul Holmes
I never wrote just you, always you and Mother. / From camp, 1964, when one girl’s wails / started a cry-fest in our cabin. Please, please come get me
You’ve Got to be Vigilant, Wes
by Emily Rinkema
I think about killing people all the time.
Poem-in-the-Box
by Stephen Parrish
Welcome to Poem-in-the-Box. How may I help you?
The Cartographers
by Alexander Weinstein
Publicly, we sold memories under Quimbly, Barrett & Woods, but when it was just the three of us, working late into the night, we thought of ourselves as mapmakers.
It all began around a campfire…
Beautiful language
is meant to be heard as well as read, and in fact words were vocalized eons before they were ever committed to clay or parchment. Storytelling began around campfires. We seek prose and poetry that continue the tradition.
Contributor Spotlight:
You Are Leaving the American Sector
by Rebecca Foust
Open Contests
by Stephen Parrish, with the editors of The Lascaux Review
