Issue #2: Kindling, Ariel Baker-Gibbs
Kindling five days ago i was chopping kindling for my eightyseven year old grandmother when and if your aim is true the hatchet moves through the wood and it splits […]
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Issue #2: Seabreeze, Ariel Baker-Gibbs
Seabreeze Seabreeze burned down last week. Seabreeze is the summer resort on the island where my grandmother lives. Seabreeze is where my mother worked as a teenager and I was raised […]
Issue #2: The Island, Ariel Baker-Gibbs
The Island on the island, there is no water. whatever does not sink into the ground is held in cisterns. once we have enough we cannot save the rest. the […]
Issue #2, Deer, Ariel Baker-Gibbs
deer it was dark. the fawn was crying. we’d never heard a deer’s voice before. it couldn’t get up. we didn’t know what to do. we went home. we tried […]
Issue #2: Nana, Marisa Glynn
I hope my grandmother dies before I get married. I have said this many times, how it stings like a bug zapper in my chest. A flicker of guilt before […]
Issue #2: My mother calls the seasons into our home!, Catherine Martin
My mother calls the seasons into our home! my room is flushed in spring. my mother opened my window, drew our garden up the wall and into my bed, my […]
Issue #2: Car Picnics, Josh Elbaum
— Car Picnics On good days, Zaydee would take me out for a car picnic in his rusty red Cadillac, the wide leather seat molded to his vastness, held him […]
Issue #2: Cutting ‘Cots, Jenna Rodrigues
— Cutting ’Cots When I ask my relatives about cutting ‘cots, slang for picking and preparing apricots to dry in the sun of California’s Santa Clara Valley, they disagree on […]
Issue #2: Chá Gorreana, Jenna Rodrigues
— Chá Gorreana The land is lined with tea fields, neat rows now harvested by machine. My great-grandmother picked the plant by hand when she lived here one hundred years […]
Issue #2: Walk to Market, Jenna Rodrigues
Walk to Market The streets are as pebbled as the bottom of the ocean, basalt and calcium stones set as skinny sidewalks. You can tell the tourists from the locals […]
