• web features
  • print issues
  • sf/ld books

Posts by John McCarthy

April 3, 2017 |

Self-Portrait as Home Run Ball

John McCarthy

But I see the look on his face, the lawn sprinklers waving back and forth like paper fans, the cicadas and their dim crescendoing dirge, and the panicgrass that the boy runs back through as he realizes what fetching me will cost him.

More Web Features

Most Recent

  • Marty
    Jane Anne Staw
  • Retracing My Steps in the Blue Hour
    Liv Golvin
  • Four Poems
    PJ Lombardo
  • On the Use of Poison
    Christos Komninos
  • Hypnic Jerks
    Zoë Rose
  • THREE POEMS
    Rachel Juan
  • Old Man and a Monk
    Dylan Smith
  • Four Poems (Cunus Response Project)
    Christian McDonough
  • THE MANY MEN IN MY LAS MENINAS 
    Greg Gerke

Genres

  • fucked up modern love essays
  • Acne Art God & Recovery
  • Poetry
  • Fiction
  • Interview
  • Nonfiction
  • Book Review
  • Rejected Modern Love Essay
  • The Cost of Living: Curated by Julia Laxer
  • More Genres

Archives

  • September
  • August
  • July
  • June
  • May
  • April
  • March
  • February
  • January
  • December
  • November
  • October
  • 2025
  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2021
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2018
  • 2017
  • 2016
  • 2015
  • 2014
  • 2013
  • 2012
  • 2011
  • 2010
  • 2009
  • 2008
  • 2007
  • 2006
  • Events
  • Submit
  • About
  • Social Media facebookblogtwitter