Slivers by Marcia Fairbanks
I remember racing into the woods up over the hill behind my parents’ house. High summer smell of baked pine needles — spills we called them — brittle under my bare feet, ready to ignite. I run fast, heedless, headlong until my childshape on the ground looks like a blur of movement...
The Sixth Swan by Leah Bobet
My swan song
For a silent sister
For the wind's sweet flight
For impulse
For dreams
My swan song...
Taking Sides by N. M. Brewka
A helmet in a war zone, the turtle straddles the yellow line, the narrow safe center of the dangerous world into which it has scrabbled, amphibious detail invading from the pond’s black depths the flat black surface of impenetrable tar...
Reminder by Eric Burger
while driving
on a dirt road
30 miles long
that leads
to one dinosaur bone...
Have You Ever Seen Someone So Beautiful? by H. A. Fleming
"Have you ever seen someone so beautiful?"
He says, turning to me
He is drinking Mike's Hard Lemonade
I am drinking whiskey straight...
Astrophysics of Missing You by Doug Tanoury
At the center of our galaxy there is
A black hole so massive
Fifteen million of our suns
Could fit within it...
End of Sanity by Esther E. Wheatley
It's when
you start to take
metaphors literally
and words hurt...
But She's the One by Christopher Owens
Daddy was an even brew of coal and sweat
except on Sunday mornings
when his skin radiated a magical mixture
of Brut and Dawn dishwashing liquid...
