Fall 2022

Now You See Him

Unbelievable. Look where I am, just a year after I came to America: Planned Fucking Parenthood. Shinjirarenai! In Japan, they call them...

Party Talk

I was on my way to the neighborhood liquor store when a young white man stopped me on the sidewalk. He had a ratty backpack slung low...

Near Balgo

The locals sit round the boab tree with beef and beer and electric music they watch the day fall into the horizon. Along the road are...

After a Great Loss

Go Down the dream voice said: into the well, the mud bottom, bog woman. Go down to taste where you come from, mud angel, the muck and...

About a Conflict

Earliest memory: The jolting CLACK, CLACK, CLACK of my stroller slamming over the cracks in the sidewalk, on our way home from the park...

My Name is Marya

I got myself kicked out of the orphanage-school. It was too easy and I didn’t like the teacher hitting me whenever I got bored. It was...

Andy

My brother died from a bullshit skin cancer that nobody dies from but which he didn’t treat for years. Or he used royal bee jelly and...

FROM THE REVOLUTION

The moment they tighten the noose the city has never been so alive and we have never felt more purpose, more love. We call each other...

MUTILATED, INCENDIARY POEM FLYING WHITE FLAG ATOP EIFFEL TOWER

the stage / the lights / the sensation of nervous disorder / of corporeal dissidence / the center / the dance / the raison d’être...

For Some or No Reason

like, for example, when Sophie and I were finally, after so many months of being overworked and underappreciated at our jobs, of commutes...

The Fiend

My dad likes to watch people die. It’s his only joy in life now. I remember him being young when I was a child. He had black hair, a...

Witness to an Unfortunate Incident

A paused video. Because I was watching. I am not a cop. I simply could not stop watching. The young women in uniform were not trying to...

Dismay greets end of U.S. effort to curb spread of tree-killing beetle, January 2021...

Dismay, that’s a narrowing of tired eyes, lips pressed tight, Like an envelope sealed with spit, if you remember those; Greeting is the...

Experience

In my early twenties, I was friends with a woman who told me she wanted to be like the moon. How she longed to go through phases like...

Residents of the Deep

For three months and twenty days, the Cyclops sailed to various ports across the Pacific. The crew spent time on both the north and south...

30°13’54” N 87°55’41” W

The endless summer’s sun feeds our myths of the green flash, until I lose count of the hours I drive and wait for day to wade into the...

Window Seat (for the first Women’s March)

The circuits that don’t short. The wing doesn’t drop. The signs that don’t quite fit stuffed in carry-on bags. The pink knit hats...

Breaking Leather on the Dog

We threw a party. We were neither of us party-throwers. I can’t remember now why we threw it. Something to do with my wife’s work, the...

Orbiting Jupiter

“What news?” he asked. “Only the silliest, please.” I gnawed at my fingernail until I thought of something. Go big, I told myself...