Father of the Border Patrol by D. Seth Horton
documents
discovered
in DC
correct historical
inaccuracies
Puñetazos by Christopher Rubio-Goldsmith
My Abuelo said, “Pepino Cuevas hits como un burro.”
My Abuelo’s fists were full mugs of lager at the cantina.
Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Dementia by Claire Scott
My daughter says my mind is sliding
words lost at sea, snagged in seaweed
Life Continued by Kristian Butterfield
The surface of a wide river is a cracked door, an open mirror.
Didn’t you see it down there for a moment? Back there
Another Country by James Fowler
When the beer started tasting skunky, we knew the jig was up. A people that can no longer manage such a staple is beyond hope. The time has come to pack the kettles and seek fairer parts.
Heaven’s Hat Rack by Laura Ingram
Dropping my pennies every Sunday into the offering plate,
I know better than to ask my grandmother
pleather purse clutched close on her lap
if God ever gives anything back.
checking on the preacher by George Perreault
he was scavenging for an old photograph,
his first wife, alone, a Canadian ferry
Tremont & Tremont by Sarah Pascarella
During my Lonely Summer, 1999, my cousin Jonathan arrived in Boston from Chicago, and called to tell me his friends’ address where we planned to meet.
Paradisiacal Sushi (Zuihitsu) by John Repp
After thanking her too profusely for the meal of apples & sesame crackers, he smoked a ceremonial final bowl & blasted “Behind Blue Eyes” through the borrowed headphones
Until We Arrive at a Radical Simplicity by Daniel Edward Moore
Circle the body’s sad regrets like a Quaker meeting with rose spike gloves
Weariness of Travel by Frederick Pollack
They think in the vast reaches
between Planck length and that of quarks
Two Black Eyes and a Rabbit Fur Coat by Robert L. Penick
I met her one night while shooting pool at Bennie’s Billiards with my buddy Tricky Dick Moranti, who later changed his name to the Honorable Richard Moranti after graduating law school and winning a judicial election.
Mist by Kim Farleigh
7.37: Apartment-block tops lost in mist; golden streetlights glowing; trees reshaped by vapour; stop sign blurred in shark-grey; distances cut by cold.
Ghost Stories by Chris Palmer
There was calm picking up and making empty disarray into empty order.
Replacement Scars by Christopher S. Bell
Shorter hair now like right before the divorce when he barely noticed the highlights.
i heard that sandy unzipped by Christine Tierney
i heard that sandy unzipped
her face
right when she got to ma’s.
Poems by Dan Sicoli
what to do when the neighbors put up a for sale sign
1. toast them with daiquiris. remember although you may think of them as friends, you were neighbors first. all relationships end.
nickel on the table by Anthony Liccione
suicide sound
sickly good
about now,
but what stops is
The Motherwell Estate by Lisa Golightly Braden
I picture him traversing the space what had once been rooms now wiped out