Issue #64 Aug 13, 2023

Handbrake

Every summer the car rolls over a degree
Or two more revealing green limits to heat
Like the dance, you meet your wife
At after the war where bayonet wounds,… Read more

Shocking News Latest Revelations

We can’t of course see what’s
going on in the courtroom but
our sources inside the room are
relaying everything they see.

The most-indicted ex-president
in American history has been… Read more

Scordatura

Image by David Chorlton

Another Sunday best spent
indoors with a view
of the clouds building up and putting on
a monsoon face
only to empty their pockets
and dissolve. … Read more

What She Thought

for Sinéad O’Conner after Heather McHugh

The man who is now a statue,
wore a metal clamp in his tongue
while burned in the public square
for believing If God… Read more

Trinitite

Odd Mineral, not found
in nature, not to be mined,
the name an afterthought.

Roll up light and fire,
cup it in the palms of your hands,
form it like … Read more