Small House Ruins

By Vernon Ng

        lying together
[in the] Open

is solution
to architecture

        bone and stone

conform
briefly
then fall away

        [As] the foot
exposed
seldom …

Personal History

By Tyler Mills

I’m supposed to be sliding
my numb toes into boots,
zipping them up my calves
to bring the mail out. Three
lemons rot in a gray bowl.
I used to …

Exposure

By Lauren Camp

            After Ansel Adams’ “Moonrise Over Hernandez, New Mexico 1941″

Stood by the edge of the mountain, the day coming fully
to crows. Stood and the …

Straight, No Chaser

By Patty Seyburn

All praise the juggling club
Their faux-bowling pins and unicycles
The glory of balance
The heptagon of grass they claim

You can sell pharmaceuticals
Or take them, or make them
Collide …

Song of the Humming Drumlins

By Jennifer L. Knox

I got to get, to get, to get—no
to return the ice cubes I found
in my pocket to the freezer.

Time passes: closets, mirrors,
laundry, arguments, secret
hiding places. Bottom …

The Game of Non Existence

By Justin Rigamonti

Did you ever play at non-existence?

My brother and I taught ourselves to play the game
no one else would’ve shown two kids:

how to lean forward under the counter,
under our …

Your Mother’s Favorite Song

By Allison Joseph

It’s that song that makes her
close her eyes and nod her head,
music sending her back to a time

before she had you, reverie
back to that tight-waist hip-hugger
pants …

If I Could Be Anywhere

By Stuart Greenhouse

i.
reading Guy de Maupassant on the PATH
Hoboken platform       1993
just out of college
string of lights down one tunnel       paling …

If Barbie Chang Is More Still

By Victoria Chang

If Barbie Chang is more still than water
            what will happen to her

tumors will they still grow in her if she
  …

Black Base

By Cameron Quan Louie

I.

Put your foot in that
large pothole there

“RUSH HOUR GOT OFF TO A SNARLED START DOWN
-TOWN TODAY WHEN A STREETCAR ON A TEST
RUN …

Sill

By J. Mark Smith

(Field, B.C. / July 2009)

It was near dark and I went along a gravel road up into the woods
where a stream crashed off a great peak. I stood without …

Words With Landscape

By Erin Elkins Radcliffe

1. Llorona

The rabbit brush is what locates us

on the lateral side of what, in Spanish, is an acequia
and, in English, a drainage ditch.
It’s hard not to have a …