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“It was a needless rinse, this bowl/ half wood, half smelling from wood/ that’s been taken away, trembling”
Poem of the Week (17 May), by Simon Perchik
Literature
Featherly
“…if there’s one thing Featherly taught me, it was that Eggs-Are-A-Bitch.” Story of the Week (May 5), by Dwight Hilson.
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The Word
“they cannot ensure a clean death for me/ they cannot ensure my reincarnation back to those lands…”
Poem of the Week (3 May), by Elif Sezen.
Catherine’s Wig
“It was then they heard the voice, like someone speaking through an electrolarynx.” Story of the Week (April 28), by Alfredo Franco.
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Vigil
“For the longest time I thought the night was furred, / a mass of soft hair fallen each dusk.”
Poem of the Week (April 26), by Meg Reynolds.
Note from Orchestra
“I passed a boy with a cloud of smoke/ where his head ought to be:/ a cigarette fume Magritte…”
Poem of the Week (19 April), by Helen Bowell.
Little Angel
“I am thirty three. I am a bachelor and unemployed. The youngsters of our yard look at me silently.” Story of the Week (April 14), by Polina Zherebtsova.
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Invitation to Dust
“We were tangueros/ of the same tile, tropical/ byway, creek mist,/ and love’s insomnia under Venus…”
Poem of the Week (12 April), by Sergio A. Ortiz.
Resurrection
“Everything is fine now. If only I had known it was so nice to die! Someone ought to tell people.” Story of the Week (April 7), by Henriette Houth. Translated from Danish by Mark Mussari.
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It is easier
“Three paper rosebuds/ strung on an unbreakable thread…”
Poem of the Week (5 April) by Alice Rahon, translated by Anna Kisby.