Issue #3 // His Pinky // Josh Elbaum
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]