Picks of the Month
March
COSMIC ARBORETUM
The café in the village square was once a well-known haunt of agitators who, in my youth, scribbled polemics on the backs of menus. They were mopped...
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- 2769 reads
February
recoil
You said Everybody told me to avoid you you're too unstable for me. I can turn myself inside out if that's what you want but I'll still be lost at...
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- 2729 reads
An Ending
The cursor blinks steadily, beating out non-human time without mercy. I break its gaze to look out of the grimy first-floor window. Above the parade...
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- 1634 reads
January
As long as sea beats on stone
The sleek body of the dive bomber plunged, the arc of its wingspan and tremendous feedbacked screech cutting the air around it to ribbons. The ships...
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- 2944 reads
Triptych 1: Mass
Mother in a mantilla rubs her spit dampened handkerchief across a child’s face, not clean enough for God, who lives inside and judges us all. She...
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- 3723 reads
December
Hoc Erat in Votis (Poetry Monthly)
"How many raindrops?" - Mark Danielewksi
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- 4816 reads
Sadie (from "Ribbentrop's Chair")
Sadie As most married couples grow older and lust slips away, they learn to cling to each other like life rafts adrift on the ocean. Sadie and Marcus...
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- 4306 reads
November
into the grey afternoon
In the woods with the child his impotent rage subsided some. He breathed deeply among the trees and crouched with the child by huge fungi and fallen...
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- 1234 reads
Autumn
A schoolgirl draws. An advert scissored from a magazine is transmuted into graphite — petrified by her sharp, light pencil. Lines for hair: rapid,...
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- 1755 reads
October
Tattoo man
walks down street, shaved head bowed - shoulders slumped and leathered features weathered brown. Dog end loose between the yellowed digits - sucks...
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- 4377 reads