About The Universe by Eleanore Lee
Why worry? In five billion years our sun will become a spuming red giant. Will it matter then who got Mother’s Ming dynasty vase? Hell, the old family farm will be [...]
2016
A Brief History Of Cola by Glen Armstrong
Though cola is undeniably a cultural construct and any modern, identifiable culture should be able to construct a Rube Goldberg-inspired machine, to speak of “xenophobic [...]
Two Poems by Shoshanna Beale
Lost In this grey and desolate world I wander like a ghost through haunted cityscapes and narrow muted streets, and I search and search I walk through silent streets, past [...]
Prodigal by Michele Madigan Somerville
When the clock strikes, the masks are delivered. I pause in a doorway, a shade, a champagne glass in my hand. Station stop: Build the pyramids. If you must petrify, think: [...]
Two Poems by Betsy Martin
The Biosphere This storm is strange for Tucson, the frigid rain sprayed down the way the gardener hoses bird excrement from the bricks. The purple teeth of the mountains [...]
De Stijl by Sarah Vernetti
Claire stands and struggles to find her balance. The walls, the floor, the ceiling converge as a single plane, the seams between them impossible to distinguish. She begins to [...]
Speed by Alice King
That summer was a hairpin curve taken at ninety, blue lights lost among trees. The humid air shivered with rebellion, and my mother’s tears formed the heavy raindrops [...]
Overpass by Alison Hicks
Two days after my mother died I lay on the mat in the storefront studio down the street from the tracks. My mother appeared at the top of the overpass. I waited for her to [...]
Everywhere by Lisa Harris
Everywhere: under rocks, edging out beneath rotten logs, on tendrils of Creeping Jenny on fingertips on your kiss already a memory. On the kitchen floor in falling feathers [...]
Marriage For Dummies by Andrew Kuhn
Remember that we are all dummies here, and must never label each other as such. Say “I” a lot. As in, “I like how you look in those pants.” Or, “I admire your [...]
Three Poems by Alita Pirkopf
I have learned to walk I have learned to walk in white fog— so warm it stifled and turned to thick steam. It didn’t burn; it smothered. I have also learned to walk in [...]
Two Poems by Helen Wickes
January Dazzle What did we know then—clock ticking, spilled salt, and that one faucet— bitterly, bitterly. The heart stammering something soft—little felt hammers over [...]
Familiar Stranger by Eva-Marie Sher
The crow on the horizon you see in the eyes of the Trappist… from The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You by Frank Stanford I travel the grief of my ancestors [...]
Psalm by Mark Tretin
PSALM The stammer of the crow is me. The stilted stream is me. The stinkweed fouling the roots of the sycamore is me. So here I stand, sick, among blue flowers. Yet the [...]
Behavior Pattern by Frank Rubino
I have very much liked you— to feel one has acted well— My behaviors were in admiration of you and perhaps imitative beyond healthy, like apes learning to fish for ants [...]
Firefly by Gladys Justin Carr
I dabble in wings in variations of flux Heraclitus is my friend everything in the world is my living room I am not pretty but let me show you my light here I land on your [...]
On a Photograph Never Taken of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Friends, Manhattan, May 1, 1920 by Benjamin Goluboff
Fifth Avenue had been cleared and they drove Stanley Dell’s Buick twelve blocks down the parade route before a cop chased them off. This day last year, with all the [...]
Vending Machine Press Issue #15
Photo by: Johannes Huwe The very fine writers for Issue 15 are: and when i by Alison Leigh Znamierowski All Types of Powerlessness by Ashlie Allen Two Poems by Jenya [...]
and when i by Alison Leigh Znamierowski
when you left in summer i watched moonlight fall squarely onto your pillow where your full-moon shoulder once waxed and waned with each breath beside me when you left in [...]
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