The Hero Enkidu: Canto IV: The Return Of Enkidu
By Lewis Turco
When at last
Enkidu returned
To the city of Erech
Gilgamesh
Was filled with joy.
He did not know
What had … Continue reading→
By Erika Jahneke
Part Two
I didn’t tell him that what I know about prison came from the summer I mainlined five seasons of Oz, or that I’d read lots of articles about … Continue reading→
By Erika Jahneke
Part One
I waited in the back of the bookstore as the expectant noises of an intelligent crowd rose and fell around me. Being in front of a hometown crowd reading from a new book with my … Continue reading→
Five Poems
By Simon Perchik
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This school bus learned nothing about aging
slows down in both directions at once
– stars never seen this early
stop then stop again the way hillsides
take their place … Continue reading→
Self-Existence
By Truth Thomas
Wolves know value of howling tests,
how woods will jump at their alarms
and fight-back canines do not bluff
when rallied round the hunter’s barn.
And fight-back canines bared is school
… Continue reading→