A Brief History of Nakedness by Flower Conroy (published in Duende , Issue 2, 2015 ) In the beginning was clay  made flesh & tingle, &...

Noon by Harindranath Chattopadhyaya The noon, a mystic dog with paws of fire, Runs through the sky in ecstasy of drouth, Licking the...

Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas  Lost at Sea, 1527 by Lisa M. Bradley (published in Strange Horizons , October 3, 2016 ) Nobody needs...

Friendship by Lucien Stryk (published in Selected Poems , 1976, The Swallow Press) He writes again. Since his divorce a fist has never...

Elegy for Myself by Stanley Moss (published in Poetry, OCT/NOV 1987) The ashes and dust are laughing, swaddled, perfumed and powdered,...

Little Star: Week 8 by Cameron Morse (published in Whale Road Review, Issue 9, Winter 2017) Embryo son, fetus daughter, wherever you are...

A Parking Lot in West Houston by Monica Youn (from her 2003 book, Barter, from Gray Wolf Press) Angels are unthinkable in hot weather...

Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money by Joyce Carol Oates (published in her 1978 book of the same name, Louisiana State...

Chicago by Carl Sandburg HOG Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;...