The Glass Bridge Theory Which is door, which is wall, as we say we want living to be absolute. Which is fog in December and which is the same set of experiences at the same time? The girl eats her…
Category: New Work
Poetry: Steve Roberts
MANDALA
Poetry: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
First attempt at a five-year plan For Mika Memory digests without codes, where thickness of meaning is a proximity to time. I’ll start with the sky, the color of teal, or the shade of coffee in tea, to root desire…
Poetry: Martín Adán (translated by Katherine Silver and Rick London)
Sea and Shell A woman and a ball: out of a sudden agreement the world forms, in its inane rotation. It begins with the fish, which inhabits the wasteland. A curve sighs. Nothing swells immediately. A mathematical point: the sphere,…
Poetry: Avery E. D. Burns
from August new to the city he rode BART in all directions ending in each cardinal point an X whose hidden treasure lies in equivalencies time & distance “I’ll never do that again”
Poetry: Pattie McCarthy
from Marybones
Poetry: Sarah Suzor
If you were smart you’d have experienced at least five times where the saying “Too good to be true” was applicable. You’d know when the truth is not really the best option. You’d keep your options open. You’d open doors…
Visual Poetry: Andrea Baker
excerpt from The Incredibly True Adventures of Me
Poetry: Tyrone Williams
The Vennus Virus In an envelope slipped into the side pocket— flanked by the legal pad-handler of a frontispiece leather-bound file folder at the back of a cabinet framed by the furniture of folding “work” into “area” in a house…