August 21, 2022
REBECCA LINDENBERG is the author of Love, an Index (McSweeney’s, 2012) and The Logan Notebooks (Center for Literary Publishing, 2014), winner of the 2015 Utah Book Award. She’s the recipient of an Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Fellowship, an NEA Literature Grant, a seven-month fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. Her work is forthcoming ...
July 23, 2022
otherland
Mee Ok Icaro reads "otherland"
they find her shivering stained t-shirt over wild bare legs
in an alley my mother’s body in the shape
of unknown food chewed by a scatter of teeth
I never saw her mud-matted fishing-wire hair but
my brother offers to send me the picture he took of her when
he showed up like a heart attack that day that
gathered into years when she ...
June 27, 2022
Livestream
Yellowstone National Park
I watch schools of salmon
lend themselves with pleasure
to the mouths of grizzly bears
when everything that's supposed to sit
circled quietly around me starts shouting,
the fat brick of hash
I told my friend not to let me keep,
not even if I kowtow at the knees for it,
the pair of garish rotisserie chickens
peppered with rosemary gossiping
in the fridge, the little ...
June 09, 2022
It Could Also Whisper
A Guide to Bird Songs, Aretas A. Saunders: 1935
Dear Reader―There are dimples on the flyleaf where you signedso hard you nearly tore it & a tiny ochre beetlesealed evermore beside a Towhee’s tank yo tee hee tee.In that Braille I thought Disaffection. In the spine’sgrit Blackstorm Dust―
You ask, Aretas,if the watcher’s right in counting on the list a bird they’ve heardbut ...
