Brian Johnstone's 'One for the Road'

One for the RoadThe headlights beam into the dark, illuminating silence the vehicle moves into,distant till it dopplers past, a fan of lightthat breaks upon a sky so full of starsit’s nothing but the swipe of usintruding for a moment on the pitch of nightmuch as a...

Kevin Ridgeway is in Times Square

Pacing Outside of a Hamburger Joint in Times Square When I was seventeen years oldI lived in my brother’s window sillover looking the George Washington Bridgeriding the trains and prowling the streets of the city,and on several of those nights I perfected my...

Dan Micklethwaite's 'Death Burlesque'

Death BurlesqueThere is no music.There is a body. Clothed.Furs and feathers. He has caught them all.He takes a rifle, powder, lead. He used to lie flat in the dirt, waiting for days sometimes just to get a view of his quarry, to get enough of a sighting to start...