Grace Notes
"If there is a place of grace / It is not here / Beside this seasonal stream." More
Five Haiku Plus Two
"Razorwire ruins view / Sun setting fire cedars / Phoenix in the ashes" More
Fragment of a Dream
"Four layers of cement boxes / Stacked by the waters of a creek; / Each one filled with music" More
To a Distant Country
By now for all I know / he could be writing a letter to his wife / on a grain of rice. Could be waiting in line / at… More
Two Poems by Purvi Shah
The following two poems by Purvi Shah appear in Mythologies, the newest issue of PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers. More
April sauna
we spoke about music and religion and sex and the worst things we’d ever done for money and the best things we’d ever done for free More
Three Poems by Maggie Millner
If I sense something is missing / then I miss it. Those first demented / hours of your absence, // I thought missing seemed a soft / denomination: miss, a word… More
from Positions of the Sun
Misanthropes and philanthropists alike wait for a green light. An old woman fumbles with her coin purse at a supermarket checkout counter. Two students, sheltered from the rain by… More
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