HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN? Have you forgotten the dark piano bar, the cloud-dimmed dusk, the steady drip of rain, and, later, … Continue reading BALES, MARCUS

WILDNESS How wildness laps the margins of the town, in spite of everything, could be a warning. A wild turkey, … Continue reading GELLER, CONRAD

DOMESTIC petunias sage green, gold-edged stalks is snake ice-on-the-mountain butter moistens a cake that’s chicken-in-a-basket purple wanderin’ Jew marry you … Continue reading HALL, VERNITA

DRAW YOUR ARROW When you went to your aunt’s wake you asked if her body was really in the coffin … Continue reading HAUSER, DEBORAH

AFTERMATH OF A MIRACLE Last week’s wake is this week’s merry-making. Friends and strangers press inside the house Where Lazarus, … Continue reading SPEAR, SUSAN

INTRODUCTION BY NED BALBO My copies of “The Divorce of Happy and Ever After,” “What Boys Fear,” “The Truth about … Continue reading SANDOR, ANNE

THINGS THESE HILLS WILL NEVER KNOW Valdottavo, Italy No matter how far into the hills you go there is another … Continue reading YURICK, CHRISTINE

INTRODUCED BY TERRI WITEK IN THE COUNT Perhaps we count to trace former selves. To get elsewhere or home. Perhaps … Continue reading DONOVAN, FRANCES

INTRODUCTION BY ERICA DAWSON Many poets are familiar with Denise Levertov’s 1979 essay, “On the Function of the Line.”  She … Continue reading REYNOLDS, KATHERINE

SEED TIME   Let’s say this time is seed, will grow into another shape we cannot comprehend, as when seedlings … Continue reading HARDIN, JEFF