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Silence Raving
2023-12-06by Clayton Eshleman Patters, paters, Apollo globes, sound breaking up with silence, coals I can still hear, entanglement of sense pools, the way a cav...
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Side 19
2023-12-06by Victor Hernandez Cruz The Empire State Building Is on 63rd Street Ramon wanted to bet Manolo Manolo said impossible The Empire State Building Is on...
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Read Your Fate
2023-12-06by Charles Simic A world's disappearing. Little street, You were too narrow, Too much in the shade already. You had only one dog, One lone child. ...
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Sick
2023-12-06by Shel Silverstein "I cannot go to school today," Said little Peggy Ann McKay. "I have the measles and the mumps, A gash, a rash and p...
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Siberian Life
2023-12-06by Herman Taube We traveled in sub-zero Arctic weather, bundled in cotton-lined coats and fur hats, to labor camps in remote detention villages. There...
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Short-Order Cook
2023-12-06by Jim Daniels An average joe comes in and orders thirty cheeseburgers and thirty fries. I wait for him to pay before I start cooking. He pays. He ain...
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Rape
2023-12-06by Sondra Upham I wake to a knife on the back of my neck, a man's voice low in my ear. What I am told to do, I do. Still the moon lights my room. ...
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Shore Counter
2023-12-06by Aaron Fogel Friendless, with an intimation of islands, The merchant set up shop on shore. He had no jovial manner and made no eye Contact with cust...
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Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump
2023-12-06by David Bottoms Loaded on beer and whiskey, we ride to the dump in carloads to turn our headlights across the wasted field, freeze the startled eyes ...
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Shiloh: A Requiem
2023-12-06by Herman Melville Skimming lightly, wheeling still, The swallows fly low Over the field in clouded days, The forest-field of Shiloh—— Ove...