Beth Jellicoe's 'Small Story'

by | Nov 23, 2011 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga

A small story By standing on each others' shoulders it was possible to escape, but that was far too straightforward for our heroes.One shone a torch and the others crawled up the beam. Then the last one reached down and gave a hand to the girl who shone the...

Maxwell Baumbach's 'Nursing'

by | Nov 21, 2011 | Prose & Poetry

Nursing after sneaking onto the roof of the apartmentmy friends and I break out the scotch and cigars they drink from fancy glasseslike my dead relative hadwhile I drink mine from a used soda bottle that still contains tracesof high fructose corn...

Peter Eustace translates Arnaldo Ederle

by | Nov 20, 2011 | Prose & Poetry

After John DonneThy firmnes draws my circle justAnd makes me end, where I begunne.History turns and these points also turnone to the other measuring the distanceof the pearl fixing the mute chant of constancy.And if, behind the shapes so drawn, squares, meadows and...

Some ekphrasis from Padrika Tarrant

by | Nov 19, 2011 | Prose & Poetry

After Lartigue A voiceless yelping,the air like translucent tardog thrown in the pond. That sudden splash, likethe great wide world's end, the lungsburning, astounded. Muzzle in the airthat is green and damp as rot,and dusk is dropping.*Padrika...