Explore

My lust works like the tides pulling in reverse, controlled by a simple ballast.

The poem I can’t yet write saves itself for when it can’t be avoided.

David Lee

Beyond her ampleness, he stands a small man vanquished.

My mother is queen of buttons. She shows off the prized ones.

All right. We are perfect. Tomorrow we will make a million dollars.

I tell my sister what I didn’t tell my father, I love you. Please, don’t die.

I know which home takes the turning, which mind washes in hot water.

I awakened on my belly—my back a raw field from nape to heels.

My mother’s house was packed, painted, put up for sale—sold.

Bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, and fill all fruit with ripeness.

They cut you off, let fall your hammered silver bracelets to the sand.

Now he chuckles with the sea, stitched within its timeless jive.

I love scientists. They’re trying their hardest. And they just want love.

The dove calls from far away in itself to the hush of the morning

I am visited daily by unrelenting spirits evoking my accumulated flaws.

Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden was edited by Tom Jenks.

One of us broke away, cooled, and died, having never fully lived.

Buster’s reasons for looking after Marco weren’t entirely altruistic.

And both of them standing there in late afternoon light, looking back.

“The doors are closed,” she said, and we would not be flying to Paris.

The writer was there ahead of the world. And that was a great moment . . .

My closet was a repository of foibles and fetishes, an archive of my life history.

insomniacs gesturing in a cave of neon light the narrative of their lives

A simple line of raging wet nearby, how as a kid I pictured the Nile.

It wasn’t clear if there was an outside world to our outside world.

The air has grown inside me. It’s become a sanctuary.

Just because we have birds inside us, we don’t have to be cages.

It’s the roll-up-your-sleeves hour, when you have to make a living.

Rebecca Lehmann