New prose poetry by William Doreski

Harvard Divinity School Upstairs in the library old men in seersucker jackets, their hands speckled like snakeskin, shudder over the problems of theology.  No need to remind them that flesh is no more ignorant than the pages of those books, and far more...

New haiga by John Irvine

* John Irvine is a regular contributor to IS&T – he is based in New Zealand with delusions of immortal failure and a cynical view of life. And check out Sunday 10 August's posting about a new publishing venture he is organising.

Bobby Parker takes a haircut

The HaircutDebbie cut my hair today. Mom paid for it, and it always makes me feel like a rotten failure that I have to rely on my mother for haircuts. For all I care it could grow and make children scream or whatever, but I suppose it makes my mom happy to be relied...

A double sonnet by Ken Head

As Good As Gone Moonlight bright as day and cleaner slices between broken-open houseswaiting for the demolition crewsand a row of battered skips stuffedfull of goods and chattels left behind by families who lived here not so longago but’ve been moved on to freeup...

Bill West finds that every little helps

Little Helps   The house wept. Inconsolable sobbing woke them. The lights flickered on, glared with klaxon grief then dimmed to a pallid glow. The house computer whimpered. Tina spoke kindly to it and started to ask it questions but Jim cut the power and rebooted...