The Plan by Irene Watson FollowFollowFollow The Plan Capture shade of sundials in curled hands. Shutter hours passing with a shield of metal marker. Ponder elegance of stone numeralsin their plainspoken steadiness, their correctness. (If) I can move the trapped...
Devour by Eve Croskery FollowFollowFollow Devour I run the shower, water hot to wash off the day.Almost instantly comes the soundof small palms slapping on cold tiles. You crawl desperately towards my undressed form, my body your lighthouse, reach your arms...
Watercolor Study, Incarnate by Alison Lubar FollowFollowFollow Watercolor Study, Incarnate I. —– PM when the suburban navy blue becomes——————–matte-black...
Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh FollowFollowFollow Lapvonaby Ottessa Moshfegh Penguin Press 2022$27.00ISBN: 9780593300268 Book review by Ariel Jennings The lamb on the cover of Ottessa Moshfegh’s fourth novel, Lapvona, stared at me for months. I picked it up long ago, got...
Poems by Sandra Kolankiewicz FollowFollowFollow Masterpiece In the painting, he is about to getwhat each time is his heart’s desire: access, the surge, the insecurity turninginto affirmation, fulfillment, release. Her face shows she feels it too. She is thefruit bowl...
The Women I Remember by Sarah Cooke FollowFollowFollow The Women I Remember I awoke to shoutingand shadows cast by a small fireat the far end of the room.They say memory is a temple to a past best seenwith technicolor eyes. But I remember the storiesabout fires at...
Eye for an Eye by Elaine Sorrentino FollowFollowFollow Eye for an Eye———–post radiation After I silently counted the last “six Mississippi”under the linear accelerator,lowered my armsand rolled off the table,the technician tosseda fistful of...
WHITE BOYS THINK THEY OWN ALL THE CREEKS by Leah Jones FollowFollowFollow WHITE BOYS THINK THEY OWN ALL THE CREEKS But not the mud in the bend of the road creekIt’s the field feedin’...
Infinity Pond by Carol Sadtler FollowFollowFollow Infinity Pond lap upon lap, around and backin sparkling aqua circlesour rhythmic kicks aeratewater into froth—arms dipin synchrony—propeljoy we are beautiful in our blue and greenswimsuits—my younger sister and I—like...
Women’s Embodied Self: Feminist Perspectives on Identity and Image by Joan C. Chrisler and Ingrid Johnston-Robledo FollowFollowFollow Women’s Embodied Self: Feminist Perspectives on Identity and Imageby Joan C. Chrisler and Ingrid Johnston-Robledo American...