No Contact: Closing Time
Scheduled Delays
by Avitus B. Carle
Every Wednesday, the wife’s lover begs her to stay.
Every Wednesday, the wife says she will, then leaves before her lover wakes. There are pancakes to be made and her husband deserves to know.
@britneyspears Found Golden Shovel
by Alexa Norsby
Good. Oops,shall I start from the beginning? Me, coming out of a coffin every night for you,
years of dancing in the wrong direction, hoping this is it.
The Full-Figured/Fat Woman and the Full-Mouthed Frog/Prince
by Exodus Oktavia Brownlow
When I stand, I am taller but I cannot hop as high as I used to. You tell me, compromise, see how fast you can run. When I do, the land is not as far-distanced as before.
Yards slip by in seconds. Miles melt down to minutes.
Hot House Honey
by Ori Fienberg
Morning is a blown compressor, air unmoved
though we’re all coiled and under intense pressure,
still.
White Wolf
by Emily Lowe
She had once spent her days running through underbrush. “The forest was shrinking, and so were we.” She was part of a pack and then suddenly wasn’t. We took long walks through Crown Heights, past brownstones and steel apartment complexes.
28: .22/27
by Nathaniel Berry
My dog pays nightly respect to the horse skull that rests among the roses growing between the roots of our Siberian Elm. White skull with empty eyes dark and bottomless as the barrel of a gun. My dog knows more about Death than I do.