- Poetry -
Elevator in the Brain Hotel
When we kiss the tiny snake in my ear slithers out just so to entwine the shiny snake in your ear. You slip your pointy tongue behind my teeth and...Continue reading→
revisions to the catalogue of folktale types
410 needs to be revised: “Once upon a time” needs to be once upon a time when you were dormant (not a doormat...) when you passed out in the tragedy...Continue reading→
Unreliable
Maybe the poet killed someone and buried them on a night so dark she can’t find the spot, just memories of stone on stone. Even the spade disappears in her...Continue reading→
Sibling
Open the moon: the ocean is a yolk breaking invisible in the grooves of your hair. My fingers trickle down your spine. This is as close as I can get...Continue reading→
Dow
Dusty sills of half-peeled fruit. Phonebooks stir in subway draughts. Paintings fade, the wall’s soft rippling. A blanker page of acres turns. What home’s rapport of flesh and glass could...Continue reading→
Credits for a Film about Missing People
Anya Trofimova is a young poet from London, England. Her work has appeared in Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, Fly on the Wall Press and Chautauqua Literary Journal, among others, and...Continue reading→
A Goodbye
Last night, I dreamt I kissed you on the cheek, and you cried. As I waited for the bus later in the morning, I saw a little boy wave goodbye...Continue reading→
How Was Your Day?
All I hear are low notes and misery. Tell me instead of boats and clouds of speed and sex and dreams and bad ideas. Tell me without the clutter. Be...Continue reading→
Ceviche and Bachelor’s Buttons
Dipping your toes into foamy surf your lips into salty ice a satisfied sandpiper skipping along the Atlantic Basin Love unrequited an apogee The push and pull of continental shards...Continue reading→
Center Square Oblivion
We sat on your brown couch which used to be my brown couch in your fifth-floor apartment overlooking the park which used to be my fifth-floor apartment overlooking the park....Continue reading→
Don’t Fall in Love in a Physics Classroom
There are books thrown across the floor and empty bottles at the foot of the bed and clothes falling off of hangers and it’s not because I’m lazy... it’s just...Continue reading→
- Essay -
Keep Your Dead Close
A story about my dead husband begins “I remember” or “remember how”: “Remember how Robb stapled yellow-highlighted Xeroxes of restaurant listings for every driving trip, and we’d eat six different...Continue reading→
Hermes at the Kakistocracy Hotel
It is a late Sunday afternoon in downtown Atlanta. The Conference on Myth, Fantasy, and Imagination, on the last of its four days, is taking a breather between the afternoon...Continue reading→