SoundsSharanya Sharmacontent warning: descriptions of violence if we cock our ears just right we snag mymother’s tongue spilling over. waterfallof ecstatic shrieks. demolition chantscrack glass windows. they don’t drown my grandfather’splaintive song: small...
Soba K.B. Carle Buckwheat flour veils the hands of the black woman in the window. She draws the attention of crowds who leave fingerprints upon her reflection. Gaze as her hands form cylinder towers she destroys with her fists. Flattens and forms dough layers...
Edmondson & Athol Chekwube Danladi from BWR 44.1 The secret divulged like this: gyrating under the panoptic apparatus, visage blue as Uranus. This hood’s hidden axis as much tipped. These blue hands grabbing hold whatever lie...
Second Nightingale Lo Kwa Mei-En # 22 …it must be a fable, invented by those who had written the book. Desire cut the tale in half, each into a mouth lightning leaves. Quills...
Tender Grapes Helen Armstrong Tender Grapes Helen Armstrong Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines:for our vines have tender grapes. Song of Solomon, 2:15 ot all boyfriends were foxes, but all foxes wereboyfriends. All foxes belonged to somebody,...
