Two Poems – Ariana Kelly

Tuesday, May 15, 2012 2:32

Domestic Violence

RON RIEKKI – ON NOT GETTING HIRED

Monday, May 7, 2012 13:00

It’s OK. I have knees. My hotel is in my back. I have successfully committed suicide so many times that Julie doesn’t even complain anymore. Remember Julie? God, she was perfect. Now there’s just Mom’s ashes. It gets worse. Listen to this. I’m barefeet in a Publix and the woman owner is telling me to leave, so I go home, get on match.com and the first woman I click on looks so sad that I wonder if she just got stabbed by a Chinese grad student. Remember Julie? God, she was beautiful. When I think about taking pills, it’s like a [...]

Garden Song – Mia Ayumi Malhotra

Monday, April 30, 2012 12:58

Knives. Your children are coming to dinner all clamor and grab, faces ticking with greed like teeth left fastened too long in the head. Left untended, your mind’s gone maggoty, rotted like the cold center of a plum. Hungry in the head, rows of unpolished spoons. They’ve hired a woman to haunt the hallway, fetch the bone china. Left as a tribulation when you die, the chard will run rampant. Unhemmed, the bean rows will loosen like old muscles in the mouth, come undone in the garden’s thistled heart.

Let Me Sleep 20 More Minuets – Kathleen Flenniken

Monday, April 23, 2012 13:27

Here’s more buckles and silk ruffles, twenty

more waltzes and gavottes, twenty minutes

of intricately tatted footsteps

Ode To Flotation Device—Rachel Kessler

Thursday, April 19, 2012 13:12

You forced my head down.