日期：2013-08-20 Cabochon Nick Laird She still has some cousins in Leitrim, the tall nurse broadcasting our secret, and bright eyes bright as trinkets（小玩意儿） when her pink nail taps the screen. Between the coda and the dipped head a flicker in the quadrant's gr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-20 Icarian Amy McCann Gulls puncture the blue between kites: translucent（透明的） , cross-boned, cellophane（玻璃纸） animals leashed to each child's wrist. Some unusual flyers: octopus（章鱼） , brontosaur（雷龙） . A man taking Polaroids alternates... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-25 The Sound of Sunlight Todd Davis On the far side of the canyon（峡谷） light is burning through two draws like water rushing into an empty riverbed. A canyon wren opens her mouth and a coyote（丛林狼） stops midtrail before vanishing among juniper.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-25 The Promise of Blue Kazim Ali What we wanted was to watch him silver fall Cut the surface of the water and leave no bruise（擦伤，青肿） Every earth bound angel who was taught his body was a sin Calculates in his head equations needed to sculpt the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-25 Broom Marni Ludwig My floor is shining because it is fire. My ceiling is shining because it is air. You are sweeping the future ahead of you like luck. It's ok, no one's listening to the laugh track of your life. The sick call in their jokes, but th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-25 The Essay Brian Culhane I have asked my students once again to write on a theme. The subject is not the end of the summer, Though summer has once again ended and they are here. The subject is not even the throes（痛苦的挣扎） of adolescence, Or the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-25 Smoke and Mirrors Caki Wilkinson Back then, girls teased their hair, big bangs like loofahs（丝瓜） on their foreheads. Plumes. Somebody spiked the punch, they said, as if they'd wanted plain old punch. They shared their earrings, weed, and jeans, w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-07-25 Cherry Tomatoes by Moonlight Kate Sontag Skintight（紧身的） virgins in a rush their red on red sashay（远足，快滑舞步） through vines, so plush（豪华的） their seeds and flesh all bite-size blush your very own stash（藏匿处） ripening in the raw, o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-22 My anonymous hour Sarah White opens with a prayer in prose（在散文） . I rise: Hello, I'm Sarah, and ... I'm a poet. Hello, Sarah. I had an anniversary six months without a line. Applause. But you know how it goes I wrote a verse about an adolescent... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-22 Afterlife Daniel Hoffman It must be easier if one believes The soul's immortal, and survives someplace, Say in Heaven, where it keeps its face And to such singularity each cleaves（劈开） , Or, as in childhood, when I used to think That souls were p... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-22 Midnight Loon Arthur Sze Burglars enter an apartment and ransack（洗劫，遍寻） drawers; finding neither gold nor cash, they flee, leaving the laundry and bathroom lights on they have fled themselves. I catch the dipping pitch of a motorcycle, iceber... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-04-22 We Didn't Start the Fire Will Schutt Two doors down lived a descendant of de Sade. He rode a vintage（古老的，最佳的） Trek in a gingham（条纹棉布） shirt. A blue Hamsa strung around his neck waved when he waved. The name meant nearly nil to us, clu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-02-27 I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank. I came up once and hollered! I came up twice and cried! If that water hadn't a-been so cold I might've sunk and died. But it was Cold in that w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-04 The pure, the bright, the beautiful, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulses to wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth; The longing after something s lost, The spirit s yearning cry, The striving after better hopes- These things can ne... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-04 I think you are the best mother in the world. Look, you help me plant trees and grow flowers. Open the window, I can see the trees and the flowers growing up. Violet flowers are as beautiful as you. Every evening, you help me with my study. Mum, you... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-29 Tell me what you saw that was so bad Tell me all the reasons Why you made me so sad I wish that i was like you and i'm sorry that i'm not At least i still have hope I guess that's all i've got Thrilled that i'm not there Yet i know that i will make... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-07 Atheism's Easier Stephen Cushman Abstain from（放弃） staring too long at the sky. Stick to screens, little keyboards; block out birds with private earbuds（耳机） ; never hear the wind breathe harder. Watch TV. Always drive. Try to avoid a night ou... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-07 God, God Fleda Brown We dressed for church. I had a white hat and white gloves when I was fifteen, no joke. You had to do that to show God you cared. God's eyes were stained glass, and his voice was pipe organ（管风琴） . He was immortal, invisible,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-07 Moon Over Brad Leithauser Scuba divers（戴水肺的潜水员） will sometimes drown within a night sea after confusing up and down. It seems so basic up/down and yet, immersed in a black neutral buoyancy（浮力） , the world's boundaries all wet, a person... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-07 Line in the Sand Ken McCullough What he said was vast, given his limits. At some mojave of the soul, we stopped to gas up, and I was inclined to bolt wrong look, wrong answer, might raise his demons（恶魔） , but what did I know, who was I to say? H... 阅读全文>>