I. I found out how the butterfly lives, how sunbeams lap against its wings. II. There is always a yellow bird darting around the river,...

Paradise vendors sugar the apples in stereo, spoon bad religion, squeeze blind melon, no doubt counting crows, jellyfish, joy. Division...

The year that I turned ten, I discovered that division and divorce are not so very far apart not only in the dictionary, but also in...

Kill Pussy Kill! / Ode to the TITTYCHOP (1) under your picture from a high school yearbook, your exlover signed: “i can’t date a...

I've mapped your face a thousand times collecting our dirt. I should know better then to roam around our home along walls’ solid edges....

Annaliese Kunst is a poet from Milwaukee. She previously interned at Cream City Review and was the former Managing Editor of Furrow. ...

On Going to the Record Store Manned by an indifferent celestial being named Jesse or Manny in flare jeans and a chambray. All gates to...

Travelogue I have been to Idaho, but it didn’t leave much of an impression. Unlike Utah, with its starched, bunchy mesas and salt flats....

I befriended a spider mother at work. She lives in a metal door frame. Well, not in the frame, but in a part of the frame where the door...

After I’d moved to New York, I spent a lot of time visiting my downstairs neighbors, Stephane and Michele. The young French couple lived...

Saturday, April 21, 6:30 a.m. Bishop’s Lodge Easter weekend in Sangre de Cristos Mountains: “Blood of Christ.” It is the mid-1980s. My...

Frank Garza drove his Chevy Silverado, with his bass boat trailing behind, to the levee on the Amistad International Reservoir that...

Anita Diaz, paralegal at Dan Newsome’s law offices in Alpine, Texas, knew when she heard her cellphone buzz that the news would not be...

Hari B Parisi’s poems have been published in numerous journals, most recently in Sky Island Journal, The Inquisitive Eater, Little...

Garth Pavell is a New York writer and musician. His poems can be found in the recent or upcoming issues of Epiphany, MacQueen’s...

Italics from Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales, The Brothers Grimm Lauren Geiser is an attorney and poet based in Los Angeles, California. She...

Wash your hands like the sinner you are and gather the citrus. Take good care as you cut through peel, pith, and flesh. Bathe in the holy...

Those little red ones you like, my husband said, pressing his forefinger to the joint in the middle of his thumb to form a small circle....

Carve me a mouth where no tongue dares venture— pale lines trembling in the marrow of dusk, call it desire: this map of smudged ink,...

He’s a bit of a bombast, that man of mine. His dark hair shines – as if oil is creeping out of his skull. It slickens his joints, jaw,...