Issue 9

Perhaps it’s just January, tin cup held out to the coming of sugar maple and wheat, that draws me to this bowl of light. In my forty-fifth year I’m lighting candles: ivory spires on the mantel, [...]

Drafted, signed, paid, groomed, called up, sent down, called up, sent down, reassigned, traded, traded, traded, released, re-signed, a dozen towns, leagues, a dozen years, a whirl of county [...]

When Libby’s twenty-pound boa struck at the rat, I dropped my tea on her snowy carpet. Long as a squirrel, the white rat had been frozen. Libby’s husband reheated it in the microwave (where I had [...]

The Moon, who is caprice itself, looked through the window while you were sleeping in your crib and she said to herself, “This child pleases me.” And she descended – softly – her staircase of [...]

Listen! If stars come out at night — could it mean someone needs them? Could it mean someone wants them? Could it mean someone calls those drops of spit                                        [...]