The God of Importance
by Philip Memmer
That book you loved—the heavy one listing your human words and what they mean— it’s still where
While Your Husband Is Drinking in Dallas
by Anthony DiPietro
A belt, a pair of shoes, oil stain on the driveway—
these can be incriminating. Someone drank mojito,
danced merengue, he may think on Sunday—
only we haven't. We just stand in the living room
—not the arch but the middle—staring, and daring each other.
You mention a documentary. Maps of brain waves music makes
in the minds of all animals. … Continue Reading ››
Contusion
by Jessica Rigney
Do not put your hand inside me
today, for today I bleed and have legs
which do not carry me all the way to you.
Instead place your hand of stone
upon my belly and make of me a song
for my own sorrow in this hibernal
cycle of the last station, its round
and insubstantial dwindle. Make
of me a woman untroubled … Continue Reading ››
Kwashiorkor
by Christine Degenaars
I am living and have lost
all my skin. I’ve taken to codeine, to cariprazine,
to the rushing sound blood makes in my ear
when I press against the pillow. Sometimes, I look
at something so hard I forget how to breathe.
I leave no space for taking in. I become round, bloated with
starvation. When I was ten, I wrote … Continue Reading ››