April 2019
Out of Habit
Just before sea-coated sky, the Anhinga reaches bat wings against the Intercoastal canal, Palm Coast.
Q. & A. with Lisa W. Rosenberg
The New Jersey psychotherapist, Second Prize winner in our Fall/Winter Fiction Contest, discusses her short story “The Birthing Room.”
The Birthing Room
Squirrel Resurrection
Oakland squirrel on the street—RIP: its language was like Coleridge’s albatross that spoke through the neck of a Hanged Man.
The Tiniest Part of Me
When a white lawyer tries to negotiate a settlement for a black police victim, the greatest resistance comes from a most unexpected quarter.
On a Folksy Painting of Kids Throwing Die, Harlem
Tap tap tap foretold the stoop’s cartomancy ahead. Green worms ravage the expected shrine, bend moonward & escape.
Salt Crusted on Automotive Glass
Between me, safe in my seat on this bus, and the decadent majesty of the salmon-red cliffs of eastern Utah, a ghost landscape stands sentinel.
Voodoo Dodo
During the Mexican Revolution, Zapatistas caused the extinction of the DoDo, Xochimilco, subfossil extraction for oil.
Ship of Fools: Surviving Fragment of Triptych
And what remains of us? A plateful of cherries spilled, half-eaten, a breast forgotten, dangling from a torn bodice.
Long Eared Owl: Refuse Container Outside the Metropolitan Museum
Raking cracked leaves by the Met Museum. A paper like an Order for unsealing in a canister came in: they found your father’s father on the roadside.
