Issue #3 // Fasting // Adam Tedesco
I The sound of millions of eyes blinking the sound of every insect’s wings pushing air is here in this black I use to tell you I had not heard […]
I The sound of millions of eyes blinking the sound of every insect’s wings pushing air is here in this black I use to tell you I had not heard […]
They would scream at each other in 7 languages so none of us could understand what we already couldn’t & did anyway Moshe & Celia return to Poland to fill […]
My dad came home from college a bright-eyed atheist just in time to inform his parents he’d be spending high holidays on the couch reading comics My grandmother, who had […]
a reproduction/ our only photo/ that survived the war/ sister Dora/ the same one still knocking on the wrong side/ of the wrong door/ each night/ looks to the left […]
flesh covered question mark shriveled around a nail when asking after the stump I am shushed a sound I become accustomed to hearing whenever wondering aloud about anything interesting had […]
If I learned Spanish, would it please you? Would you take my hands, false writers, call them manos and hold them close? Would you feed me hierba and agua? Camel […]
On the mountain overlooking your family’s house in Santiago, I sat watching you undress yourself of the oranges in season, take them for anything but remembrance, then begin to feed […]
The toy story clouds dissipate and rearrange themselves into sensical, then nonsensical patterns. Out west, clouds begin to define the vastness of rural space, providing a needed sense of scale […]
Growing up, I read you poetry. Dylan Thomas, your favorite. “And you my father…” Remember how the speaker turns to address his father directly? Like the speaker, I immersed in […]
We’re sitting together at Burger King. I’m unfolding the wrapper off a bagel I got across the street. She’s chowing down on a Whopper as I ask, “Did you eat […]