Issue #3 // Love in the Fast Food Lane // April Penn
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
When the decision is made to change the color of a wall in the bedroom of a twelve year old in the interior of a house in the middle-to-upper-class suburb […]
I woke up this morning, the dirt from my mother’s sunflowers still under my thumbnail. Haven’t dug there in three months. Yesterday I thought my hands were clean. Pulling up […]
That winter the ice covered everything, and froze my brother’s car to the side of the house. And I crawled on my hands and knees up the driveway, slid back […]
Hey there, it’s us. Maybe you forgot we were here, lurking, working on Issue #3. Popping up before that launches so we can post our Best of The Net Nominations. […]
SOMBER / DISTANT / GHOSTLY soon you’ll take me / across the mystic to spy pond / don’t fall / asleep across the last train’s broken back / you have […]
PGH no white t-shirts / hot dog dinner at church with the pastor / knees patched with names of bands neck-knotting bus rides away in the land of only off jumps […]
Lullaby ———————– More of Chen Chen’s work here.
Family ——– Chen Chen is a University Fellow in poetry at Syracuse University, where he also serves as Poetry Editor for Salt Hill. His work has appeared/is forthcoming in Connotation […]