Sure to Glisten by Ashley Taylor The vermillion sun salts our mouths, warmth brimming with the sapor of brine. I write on my arm the torrid air a salve for wounds pleasure […]

Between the two American holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas, it seems appropriate to write about one aspect of both: food.

Traditionally the first Thanksgiving was a celebration of a successful, […]

Mollypops, we called them, stomping
with our small shoes,
heaving them like baseballs,
bursting them green
against the barn wall.
We were children, seeking
to destroy, as children do,
leaving the […]

Turning sixty last month mandated a driver’s license renewal that replaced my wide-eyed forty-year-old self with a puffy-eyed, wrinkly-necked person unmistakably related to the round-faced woman who gave me l […]

Immersed by Caroline Kahlenberg     People will say it was suicide, but you mustn’t believe them. They’ll say I looked normal at first, a tall woman with long black hair […]

I reach for a glass jar of sweet gherkins and notice the same unfamiliar woman is following me down another aisle in the grocery store.

I wonder if it is a coincidence. My gut tells me otherwise.

The […]

Is it the nature of desire or
the desire of nature to reveal
how little we have evolved.

Is it the few words of a person or
a person of few words who
commands our attention.

Is it the history of violence […]

I had heard when you get older you revert to a lot of your tastes and activities when young, but I disregarded it, until I started buying old Joni Mitchell and Buffalo Springfield albums, and listening to the […]

The Art of Kathleen Markowitz “I didn’t initially like abstract art,” admits artist Kathleen Markowitz, her vibrant paintings offering bursts of primary colors, suffused sur […]

It’s not hard to sneak into the Manhattan Exclusion zone if you know what you’re doing. The Coast Guard mostly looks for the guys who don’t know what they’re doing—the ones who rush past Spuyten Du […]

a lot of roadkill lately.
one sign of summer’s
approach. dead foxes—
dead birds especially.
and once, on the main road
driving toward blessington,
an otter—an almost
intact thing, a torso
as thick […]

The sky streams by overhead, a blue tapestry
dappled with puffs of white, each cloud haloed

by the sun’s mild gold. The day is at its half-
way point. Soon, the sky will lose its hold on gold,

the b […]

I’ve held season tickets on the fifty-yard line of health care for a long time, watching in alternating awe and horror at how medical interventions are provided. In the gratitude/wonder department, […]

At recess, I was talking to a friend on the schoolyard, when a kid came up to us and said that President Kennedy had been shot. He did not say he had died. He just said he had been shot.
I turned to my friend, […]

……………………………………………………………Inspired by, “What’s Broken,”
………………………………………………………………………………….Dorianne Laux […]

My flight is booked. I’ll be with you at the hospital, and I’ll stay for your recovery when your kids go back to work. It’s been just a few days—plenty of time for the doctors to figure things out. We’ve been talk […]

The Chair by Sue Allison Streetlight Voices: Short Fiction & Memoir · The Chair by Sue Allison     Podcast: “The Chair” is a short fiction about a huge ab […]

Rose sat on the front porch, her custom at that dwindling time of day, watching. She tucked a strand of gray-white hair behind an ear. Her rocker squeaked against the floorboards. Light had fallen near […]

What an impressive turnout this year! We received such a broad spectrum of poetry this go-round, such an interesting blend of sestinas, free verse, couplets and some that made skilled use of rhyme. As always, I am […]