Poetry
Silver Point The silver point of an evening star dropping toward the hammock of new moon over Lake Okoboji, over prairie waters in Iowa— it was framed in the lights just after twilight. 381-381 By Carl …
Poetry
A Starting Point I told myself five hundred would be enough to begin to make a plan. In the end, it was over two thousand when we divided the cash we’d kept in a tin. Waiting for him to leave, I moved seamlessly between assuming some mindless Zen …
… Dies Illa It’s modern, graveside, to shield the bereaved, … in reverse playing Jeopardy, haunting and tormenting. 125-126 By Elisabeth Murawski … Dies Illa …
Fiction
… Dreams Like This Must Die Illustration by Dani Choi. Then these women in a van … believe that diagonally across 17 there was another store—a competitor, I suppose—that sold seashells. Why didn’t … Mexico City just the day before; he’d packed the ampules, vials, and syringes inside six medium teddy bears. Had a …
… how he swore on a book, shingle-voiced; and when his round died down, had said: will never whirl around a hub. Seen … Has for outer limits a flying wig. It will, he knows, come to rest again on him, as periwinkled as it was, and complete his composite skeleton: a gull breaking snails on …
… Brooks, and Amalia de Alberti. New York: Henry Holt and Company. Five volumes. $10.00. Men of Good Will Volume VII: … should bear the same title as a volume of Rol-land’s more compact cycle. “Death of a World” fits them both. Indeed, it … contempt on such empty gestures, fit only for intellectuals who turn to words because they are impotent in action. …