birds

I was eating cherries out of a jar when Denis Johnson died, my fingers sticky with the slime. Their red syrup coating my teeth, I could feel a cavity forming…

* * * Let’s have a look around Loneliness waits in the kitchenw wears a tuxedo wwEveryone misses the roses also a triangle in her throatwwwa circle in her mouthwwand…

* * * Yesterday, rain brushed every window white, locking us deeper inside. Today, birds mouth mats of mud. In crevices under the deck, the robin is too obvious a…

1. Once upon a time a young girl lives her life free from the constraint of clothing. She is vulnerable, as you might expect. Perhaps even unaware of her vulnerability…

An owl lives in the sweet gum, and tonight it has flown to our rooftop. Its calls float down to me—low and hollow—like curls of carrot peels around a bowl.…

* * * First it was the birds, but it may as well have started in the dirt, with the bugs, or out in the fields, the pests rooting stalk-side.…

Starlings lead me through the hills, only to vanish; sunlight shrouds itself in passing clouds, cracks of mystery, the lung-luring air of a November afternoon sucks me into a black…

Wind Chimes with Birds Prisms of Jell-O green glass soft clang, three metal crows rest and sometimes dance in Autumn wind, permanent residents who will not decamp to a foreign…

THE FALCON The falcon floated above the treetops On my birthday, Hovered in equilibrium Before it plunged As if air Were endless. Again it rose, And soared, and dived, Braking…

[Image Credit: “Heart Of Birds, La Scarlatte Illustration] I never liked birds. I suppose it’s because my father used to keep them in a shoebox in the freezer. He collected them…

This is the twenty-eighth installment of Entropy’s small press new releases feature. If you are a small press and would like to see your upcoming titles listed here in the…

Hello — we have the twenty-first installment of Entropy’s small press new releases ready for you! If you are a small press and would like your upcoming releases to be…

Bird by Noy Holland Counterpoint Press, 2015 176 pages – Counterpoint / Amazon   The first ‘bird’ in Noy Holland’s Bird, a debut novel—though ‘debut’ seems just wrong for this high…

Sam Sax is a 2015 NEA Fellow and finalist for The Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He’s a poetry Fellow at The Michener Center for Writers where he serves as…