Category Archives: Poetry

          Jennifer Crow The Volume of the Universe             For Jon You asked me to find the volume of the Milky Way— it took a whole page in my notebook, while you meditated on the glories … Continue reading →

Patrick Doerksen Revelries   So much noise—like we think to hold up heaven with pillars of nonsense sound. Every feast, we gather what silence we can, press it into wine, hold it up for the spirits who court our own, … Continue reading →

Charles Von Nordheim Cataclysm Days: A Dispatch from the Interior Highlands   Some crisis reports commented on speech emitted by stones and clay and mud One ignores the terrain when it complains like one ignores falling frogs from thin air … Continue reading →

Stuart Greenhouse Two Androids, Learning to Be Human, Visit the Water Star   The capsule hovered over Tolstoj Crater at just the point of parabolic focus. The scholar said to her two pupils “See, there is no regolith, the solar … Continue reading →

Catherine Moore Déjà Voyage I opened the front door to find a mermaid standing on my stoop, her carved body painted an aged teal green like the haint color used on the thresholds of Caribbean cottages. Under the protruding scales … Continue reading →

Sara Cordova Trading Disguise   We switch places at the edge of town. The guy gives me his hat and his boots, and I tell him how to find his way back into the woods, to the stream and the … Continue reading →

Justin Holliday No Panic   I imitate the other copies on the street: get up, go to the Dollar General for a soft drink, repeat. They pass by like strangers though I want to say I know them; their instruments … Continue reading →