Barbara Daniels
Floodgate Road closed. You can
drive over to South Otter Branch.
But the road is closed to Otter Brook.
Garden State Scooters is located
there now. Rent or buy. Birds call
through the smoke-filled light.
Small trees, new …

Vicente Huidobro
Translated by Jonathan Simkins
Ask for your death
Here is the grave by the trail of nocturnal planes
The spontaneous generation of words on the open sea
The glitter of their modulating passage
In the cross’s metamorphosis lighting …

David Anthony Sam
You turn and turn,
animate flesh,
quickly forgetting
the knowing part of you.
We speak towards you
but you do not hear
as the gray clouds
that descend to gray fog
do not hear.
Outside, jonquils and …

Zan Bockes
 

            “That witch needs her head examined!” roared my father after yet another confrontation, evidently hoping his shout would carry out the screened window to Mrs. Hokinson’s pointed ears. I could see her in her backyard, fuming as …

Ross Hargreaves
 
Right before lunch in the West Junior High band room when the overhead tells us about the Surge truck parked by the cafeteria ready and waiting to give us all free Surge. “Hurry up,” the overhead said. …

Kennedy Sievers
in purple and blue crayon leaving messages for me that resonate within my head your messages of love overlaid with the text of The Confederacy of Dunces I’ve never read the book on its own but now it’s …

Michael Brosnan
Birds, as they must,
Sing at the first sign
Of light,
The blue hour.
There’s a word:
Perforce.
You and I, we push
Through — as if to stop
Is to lose.
But lose what?
(The severely imagined)…

Daria Smith Giraud
The clapping of my beaded braids
were downbeats to dirty New York streets.
Brand new shell top Adidas chasing a gaze
of graffiti tags thrown up subway upbeats
where summers were my treasure under stars and moon.…

D.G. Geis
No telling
what He thinks—or if.
His ears,
a zillion light years wide,
pressed to the fizzy heart
of the universe,
a hydrogen gasbag
folded in on itself
like table napkins
on the Hindenburg,
an omelet,…