Prose poems by Joshua Weiner, Petr Borkovec, Donna Stonecipher, Mark Terrill, Lacie Semenovich, Guarav Monga, M. Drew Williams, Tom Pickard, Jarvis Boggs, Claire Scott, Matt W. Miller, Sarah Anderson, Justin Lacour, Chris Green, Leonard Kress, J. A. Bernstein, Michelle Penn. Reviews of Tom Pickard’s Fiends Fell by Joshua Weiner and Donna Stonecipher’s Prose Poetry and the City by Kate Singer.
D You tell yourself you’re immune, always, but then D appears, if not exactly out of the shadows then like a river of milk flooding
WATERCRESS I. The clean and narrow white tents of the Farmer’s Market along Arizona burden the senses: the flow of bright colors rushing underneath;
EXCISION In my headlights I see a giant rat scud across the road. Under the unflinching illumination of my high beams, it looms, black
ONCE UPON A BREAKFAST after Sidney Goldfarb’s “Moving Breakfast” I get out of bed early like a god. I give my daughter something
THE POSSUM You are hard-boiled, possum. Not fooled by the Spanish prisoner, nor prone to self-parody, as at an office party. You are hair
TWILIGHT WATER Land stretches, lush and flooding, and a man rows a boat across a field into the night. I hear you telling
SAID THE RIVER WHEN I BEGGED FOR HIS SONG Kid, I may look so slicked back, coffee black, so coolest cat under a root
IN PRAISE OF A WORLD THAT IS NOT RANDOM I must have. Stolen cash from my boss. Torn the legs off a cat. Sworn
Of course, we miss somebody. We always wish somebody was here. But when somebody is not here, we have a little freedom to do as we please.
FIENDS FELL An Excerpt April 1st An Atlantic rage gathered a mass last night and unleashed a snarling sea-saga over the icy roof. nowt took
Fiends Fell by Tom Pickard Flood Editions, 2017 224 pages Reviewed by Joshua Weiner Tom Pickard’s reputation as a poet of the
THE LOGICIAN The community attends a late-night lecture given by a renowned logician. At centerstage, he dips his hands into a basin of
CLOTHES An Excerpt In this case, it was not the clothes that were made to fit her body but rather her body had to be
THE WATER’S FLOW –for Maj The second toilet in the office bathroom flushes again and again and again like it’s trying to swallow
Prose Poetry and the City by Donna Stonecipher Parlor Press, 2017 182 pages Reviewed by Kate Singer I once asked Donna Stonecipher
THE TURNAROUND I’m walking down the pedestrian-congested Bahrenfelder Strasse in Hamburg just passing the Fabrik where I’ve seen John Cale, Lee “Scratch” Perry, the
THE RUINS OF NOSTALGIA 26 Even if unconsciously, the city’s inhabitants had been glad of the holes. Empty slots between buildings, empty lots on
BRIEF BIO FOR THE BEREAVED Petr Borkovec is now a somewhat neglected author, and it is unquestionably true that only a small handful
HUMAN BEING Along the perimeter of a busy compound, on a sidewalk in front of a high black iron fence, two women are standing
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