by Nathan Dennis | Oct 12, 2021
Andre P. Audette I saw two flags at that rally there. Two flags crossed at that rally there. I looked close – real close – and saw him there. There he was, just crucified on the cross right there. There on the cross of flags right there. Blood and water flowing...
by Nathan Dennis | Oct 12, 2021
Sue Spiers It’s sulphur inside a yolk when you’re shaving; a mirror image that’s slightly misbehaving. It’s feeling calcium grow when bones curl in fingers, ghosts of malleable digits, reptilian harbingers. It’s coppicing trees when their leaves turn to copper...
by Nathan Dennis | Oct 12, 2021
Michael L. Ruffin Someone left a message on the church’s prayer line: “Pray for my friend; she’s having a breast autopsy tomorrow.” My first thought: “What good will that do?” My second thought: “If it’s dead, why not just cut it off?” My third thought: “Back...
by Nathan Dennis | Oct 12, 2021
Richard Porter You worry. Rest assured, I’m fine. If my verse chills from time to time, seems colder still between the lines, and ices over in harsh rhyme, it does not indicate my state. Beneath the frost my warmth remains, but in my absence you conflate my...
by Nathan Dennis | Oct 12, 2021
Carrie Penrod Sometimes, I wish I could be born again. Not like a born-again Christian, or a born-again virgin. Because this isn’t living, this thing that I’m doing. It’s surviving–– or, trying to survive, trying to put the pieces back together so I don’t...
by Nathan Dennis | Oct 12, 2021
Abby Leigh Mangel oh no oh god i can’t breathe i think it’s a heart attack mom don’t leave don’t leave it hurts so bad you can’t believe now it’s all flooding back oh no oh god i can’t breathe i can’t see anything above or beneath it’s like everything is black...
