The Cancer Fairy by Judith Swann
It was a small dark body, like a mouse.
Unemployed, it still drove the car,
pushing the TV out the passenger-side door,
yellow chyme and bile the color of grass,
like...
Nuts by Melanie Bilkowski
Today is just another
Peanut Butter and Jelly day.
0.75 cents per sandwich retail.
But by the time
My daughter is 35,
I am sure that it’ll be triple that
Amount.
Unless we run...
Two Poems by Jacqueline Jules
Avocado Secret
When the widow wrote
how her husband
once said she was like
a perfectly ripe avocado,
I wanted to rush right out
and buy one. Examine
its tough exterior,
creamy innards,
solid core.
Learn its...
Two Poems by Megan Alpert
Island
She would cry every time we put her in the carriage. That was all right, and the way I had to lean sideways to make her sleep....
From Let The Wind Push Us Across by Jane Schapiro
Tent
Sometimes in the morning,
before opening my eyes,
I dream of our tent,
that tiny green dome.
From behind its walls
thin as skin, I hear birds,
leaves, a brush of wind.
I yearn...
