thomas kearns

Take as Directed by Thomas Kearnes

Greg wants to quit the Effexor. He washes up for bed in the bathroom. I’m already under the covers, seated against the pillows, knees drawn up. The first month, he [...]

August 1, 2015

Two Poems by Emily Bernard

June 1, 2015

TAKE A LEAF FROM MARY’S BOOK Virginal – winding as a wordy tour of a world For thrill rides – a four-minute [...]
Coffee Stains by Christina Murphy

December 1, 2013

Carrying a Starbucks Venti with double cream down the steps, he trips, hits his head, and the coffee spills out into a small [...]
Austerity Measures and other poems by Addison Bale

June 26, 2017

without for an abscess conversations after ellipses a side-long glance flouting its prolonged piss burn a bashing spring [...]
Six Poems by Josh Jordan

December 29, 2016

The Soul Undimmed In quietude you whisper upon the wind, reminiscing upon an afflicted past Outwardly your soul appears [...]
Turtle and Hare by Chloe Clark

April 1, 2014

If loss were a mathematical concept— a subtraction, a division, a formula for invisible numbers, then how does one [...]
Diner Hearts by Benjamin Blake

February 1, 2015

Waitress smiles as she sets down my coffee All I can offer in return is a fleeting glance into her eyes Well received, but [...]
Loss is by April Salzano

October 1, 2014

not the contact paper on broken walls, the hammock no one used, the black strap that didn’t seem able to stop the badness. [...]
The Price of the Ticket to Heaven by Raphael Maurice

August 14, 2019

Stay & hold me & these suffering hands. For I won’t be long. I will not remain unread like a book for God does [...]
Another Word For ‘Birthday Hamster’ by Laura Pavlo

January 29, 2017

There were one thousand “e”’s in the “please” Lucia’s son sung into the pet store window as he furiously pressed [...]
A Milton Bradley Game by Hilary Sideris

January 4, 2016

The object, for a girl eight to fourteen, is to be ready, to swoon if he’s a dream, recoil if he’s creepy, having [...]
Two Poems by Lynne Potts

November 1, 2015

FACTS, CHICKENS, AND TRAIN TRACKS Acquisition in the lobby of the El Rancho Hotel, Gallup New Mexico where the waitress [...]
Archaeologist by Emma Fissenden

June 1, 2014

sifting through her dresser drawer distracted by the staccato hum of the pipes upstairs, by the cat leaping, less gracefully [...]