Issue #2: 7/19/96, 5:36am – William James
7/19/96, 5:36am The waterline rises, & a siren jolts the neighborhood awake with its howling. The sun is still crying, hasn’t stopped in days, you wonder if something broke its […]
7/19/96, 5:36am The waterline rises, & a siren jolts the neighborhood awake with its howling. The sun is still crying, hasn’t stopped in days, you wonder if something broke its […]
division april 20, 1995 beyza lale ozer meaning: pure & white my mom looks down at me “gökten melek” meaning: angel from heaven my mother never had a second thought […]
7901 my house was built on a hellmouth. there is a family of army ants that say they aren’t doing any damage but they say this while they crawl between […]
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 […]
April 5th Perfect exposure clear light on my skin but I worry about her and what lies within. Dogs tied to doorways induce fear by supernatural signs tied to my […]
April 16th I think the old man upstairs has forgot to turn off his christmas lights. Its the middle of May and reindeer lights flood my cupboards. I try to […]
— 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 […]
Os Imigrantes (The Immigrants) After the painting “Os Imigrantes,” by Domingos Rebelo A small woman sits on the edge of her trunk, wrapped in island cloth, an attempt to hold […]
Another 4th of July Then I see you in an antique farmhouse, checkered apron at the hip, mixing mojitos from fresh mint. The table set with yellow plates, red wine, […]
— 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 […]