Showing results for August, 2018
From the Balcony
Craig Loomis
From the long wooden balcony, from the house that overlooks a forest that is almost bluegreen in springtime and a witchy red during the fall, the snow slants through the trees like a new
geometry,
Travelogue
Josh Weston
In 1644 John Weston, age thirteen or sixteen, depending on the source, stowed away.
When I Am Delilah
D. Gilson
“You’re crafty and wise,” the quiz’s benevolent gods tell me.
The Patron Saint of Loneliness
Sarah Shotland
I saw her at a campus TGIF three weeks ago. Talking Gender Issues Fridays. It’s a weekly chat-session where students come to look at the week’s current events through a gender lens. The campus used to be single-sex, but now we call it gender inclusive. We were going out of business; there are only so many radical lesbian 17 year olds, and most of them already get into Smith.
How to Survive as a Single-Family Car*
Marne Wilson
Strike up a conversation with other cars you meet
Hunger Made The Woman Obsessed
Amanda Dycus
Tortellini becomes my password for everything.
Damn.
Darby Cashed
Damn.
Kendrick Lamar
April 14, 2017
Top Dawg
54:54
The first time I visit Southern California, it’s for work. I get lost out of LAX and wind up toting my luggage around Inglewood- the
Get Lost
Kevin Wilson
On Friday at school, we were all vibrating, so nervous for what came next. We barely listened in class because what did it matter? We wouldn’t be around to turn in the homework that would be due on
in style & so-and-so
Katherine Vondy
sentences are donuts bursting with believability custard
Rising Inaction
Ash Sanders
It’s Saturday night, and I am cleaning the kitchen because it’s easier than cleaning up my life; I am putting away dishes because I know where dishes go. I do not know where to put other things:
Two Poems (Eulogy & These Smart Glasses ...)
Jonas I. Tijerino
How grand it would be if Jedi Temples were Papaya Monuments.
Year of Conor McGregor
René Ostberg
Imagine if McGregor were a woman, I’d wonder throughout the day, as I sifted through the barrage of emails from my boss, all his reminders to cc him the next time I sent this or that, the notifications that he’d be leaving early again as I stayed late. Imagine McGregor in an office. Imagine him…or her, aged a bit past her prime. How would she prep for a fight? What would it be like to be a woman like her?
Fun Facts
Donald Ryan
What do you get when you mix and elephant with a rhino?
Elephino.
That joke has always held a special place with me. I first heard it back in prime time when the American Broadcasting Company
The Beauty Mark
Rani Neutill
“You are cursed,” my Dida said, solidifying the bells of mortality that were ringing.
“Ki?” I responded, my eyes wide with fear and panic.
“There is a beauty mark here inside you. It means you are cursed with sexiness.”
Like a Revolution
Alex Perez
The truth was I knew exactly what was happening, how the possibility of power had clouded my judgment. In bed at night, I thought about putting a stop to all of it and just playing the season out, but I couldn’t shake my contempt for Parker. It wasn’t about baseball anymore, not in the slightest. It had taken just a few days for me to turn the war of aesthetics into a full-fledged revolution.
superstitions
Jody Chan
getting a haircut in the year’s first month will cause the death
of an uncle eating fish will bring your family abundance
八 meaning eight sounds the same as 發 meaning wealth
& also hair eight
2 Poems (from The Gospel According to X)
Oliver Baez Bendorf
from
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO X
Prayer is what you do when you don’t know whether your animal will live through the night. Pink like Pepto-Bismol staining a goat’s chin. Everything lives and