Live Lobster by Kevin McDaniel
for Tess Like an orbiting satellite,my daughter's yellow cap bobsaround the lobster holding tankof the illuminated fresh seafood display,He's not swimming, Daddy,she informs me.He's resting, baby,I reply, thinking he's not alive, but dead and destined for a customer's...
Inconnue de la Seine by Annie Diamond
Born near 1870, she did not get her epithetuntil 1926--Unknown Woman of the Seine. Camus called her a drowned Mona Lisa;suitable, as she was pulled from the riverat the Quai du Louvre, the museum whereMona Lisa has been since 1797. Inconnuean apparent suicide, because...
Leave It All on the Field by Michelle Brooks
A man less than a mile from my househas shut down the highway. He's standingon the bridge over which I drive almostevery day, and he's threatening to jump. He won't despite people yelling, Justjump already and Kill yourself. The policeclose the road that leads to him,...
The Last Cloud Coil by Thomas Gresham
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWBEfYCNiB4&feature=youtu.be Thomas Gresham is a native Texan now living in California. His work appears in Superstition Review, Permafrost, Gravel, and Ocotillo Review. His story 'Peach' recently won the Prose and Poetry contest at...
TWEER by Hiram Larew
Engagement. Resistance. Witness. Lately, poets have been getting out of their own small confessional towns. In “A Haunting,” Patricia Spears Jones imagines, or carves up, a president deranged by the ghost of John McCain. The president puts wax in his ear so he can’t...
Plates by Linette Marie Allen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-lKWuf6xp8 Linette Marie Allen is earning an MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts at the University of Baltimore. Recipient of the 2018 Turner Research and Travel Award for Poetry, she has been commissioned to initiate a...
Saint Mary of Egypt by Anne Champion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bbEHytckmA&feature=youtu.be Check out Anne's new chapbook: https://quarterlywest.submittable.com/submit/138526/purchase-she-saints-holy-profanities-by-anne-champion
My Sagging Breasts by Emily Mohn-Slate
I’m in the gym locker room drying off with a tiny, scratchy towel when I catch sight of my profile in the mirror. My breasts look even more wilted and vacant than usual in the industrial light. I think of my friend’s grandma, who said, “Honey, once you’ve had a baby,...
Driving Red Riding Hood by Gloria Keeley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUNXm9yWRuM Gloria Keeley is a double graduate of San Francisco State University with a BA and MA in Creative Writing. She collects old records and magazines, writes poems and stories, and sells memories on Ebay. Her work has appeared...
Salamanca by Esperanza Hope Snyder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9U30DTns4s
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