Temporary by Hilary Leichter Coffee House Press, March 2020 208 pages / Amazon / CHP (available for preorder) Upon finishing Hilary Leichter’s debut novel Temporary, I was left with…
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for Katie each inlet each dissolution was inner thought K loves the streams the glow an ecosystem and idea that came down mountain and everything alive and loud but…
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My turn, my turn, my turn! My kids shriek and race around the house, bickering over who gets to use the something next. It doesn’t really matter what it is.…
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When I am flying in my dreams it’s like I’m swimming in the blackest milk. Nourishing but cold, cloistered in the phosphoresence , like God’s fingers are swirling the watery…
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Image Credit: “Last One In” by Matthew Oliphant I’m sitting in my car, idling in front of the gated entrance to a storage facility in Fallbrook. It’s 11:30 PM.…
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In the midst of my most intense experiences in this life—happiness, sorrow, nostalgia, melancholy—the moments I feel most alive, I always return to this gerund as a descriptor: floating. My…
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Fur Not Light by Jeff Alessandrelli Burnside Review, September 2019 77 pages / Amazon / SPD / BR Jeff Alessandrelli’s Fur Not Light—a title borrowed from Russian Absurdist Daanil…
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* * * Momma makes Bird for dinner every Sunday. Her and the afternoon spend their hours stuffing and plucking and cooking. I spend mine on the kitchen floor, blowing…
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Do Not Enter When Flooded We should have paid attention to the sign that night when the sky roiled and dropped funnels and sulfurous bolts and enough water to drown…
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WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…
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* * * Fireworks of feathers trickle like indignant rain & the skyscrapers don’t apologize. Neither does the janitor’s broom as stunned (but still alive, still alive) warblers get swept…
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Sibyl: i/i\i bore a faith the width of weeks and spent them wading through spume seas. Tongues torn from tiliqua fashioned bracelets, m/y wrists meek. Sweltering rings of damp skin…
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Two Californias by Robert Glick C&R Press, November 2019 190 pages / Amazon / SPD / C&R Press As much as folks might love the tidy endings and banal…
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Seen from the outside, the ship floats on calm, dark waters. The ship seen from afar, far away, by an immobile and inattentive observer. The ship being viewed, but not…
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