by Patrick Duane To Whom It May Concern, There are a few things that I wish to disclose. It’s true that I once told people I was Portuguese. I did this only because my father used to say, “I think our Irish ancestors mixed in with the Portuguese.” I took this to mean my great…
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Dear Father
by TJ Benson I have been reading the Bible again, from the New Testament, to know how it feels now that I have abandoned the church. I read about the birth of Jesus and wondered about the shooting star that led the Magi to the town of his birth. As a child, I used to think…
Editor’s Note: gender/genre
“What am I to myself / that must be remembered, / insisted upon / so often?” These lines from Robert Creeley’s “The Rain” first resonated with me at an age when (strange to say) I was, in the eyes of the world, a teenage girl. At the time, like the frog anatomy I had to…
Editor’s Note
Dear Reader, Just before the 2020 presidential election, I moved back to the small Ohio town in which I grew up to become a delivery driver. Ferrying packages over the streets I’d walked and driven growing up, I saw the same cultural war that embroiled the rest of America gripping the place and people I’d…
“On Ekphrasis & Revision”, and “from UNIVERSAL THEORY IN WHICH EVERY FAILED GESTURE TOWARDS LOVE IS A SOULMATE FROM AN ALTERNATE TIMELINE” by George Abraham
On Ekphrasis & Revision A Markov Sonnet with Memory Leak The video game, Assassin’s Creed: Origins, follows an ancient Egyptian assassin named Bayak, and his wife Aya, who work to protect the people under Ptolemy XIII’s rule. Their son was martyred by the Ptolemic police state, and so the game follows Bayak & Aya’s quest…