John Grey and ‘That Goat Man’

by | Jul 27, 2011 | Prose & Poetry

That Goat Man So you have a goat do you,    a strange animal that cuts your grass with relentless teeth and smells like ten goats.And then, when the grass can go no lower,he’s into the purple vetch,and the dandelions and even the garden itselfwhen he can squeeze his...

Two short poems from Larry Jones

by | Jul 26, 2011 | Prose & Poetry

For YouThe grocery clerk turns redas my wife yells at mesomething about not enough money.But, I don't reacttill we get back to the carthen we have at it.See,I don't like arguing in publicthat's just what the people wantsomething to talk about at homesome...

Agnes Lehoczky's 'I's Notebook'

by | Jul 25, 2011 | Prose & Poetry

I’s NotebookThere are a lot of cities I would like not to remember. To talk of them as if they weren’t. As if those cities had not existed before. There has to be a hole in the membrane of memory this way. Through which these places can escape into the atmosphere and...

Gareth Spark's 'Repairs'

by | Jul 24, 2011 | Prose & Poetry

RepairsGrit dust lifts in a dry wind blown over the ruin’s stones,Corkscrews in clouds of white pepper, rattles into the closed vanAnd my eyes as I work at the repairs.Everything in the yard is broken; engines cracked like finger bones,Locks twisted like the snapped...