日期：2014-07-18 And the Greatest of These Is Love Doug Anderson I saw the Pentecostals when the spirit struck them get out of their van and rush to the downed power line as it popped and sparked, snake-whipping back and forth on the road between two lines of cop-st... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-07-18 The Art of Navigation He set black and white on fire. -- Harry Gaugh on Franz Kline The rugged brushstroke of the dying oak is left standing for a week, limbless as the marriage we find ourselves dismantling. Without leaves or branches to create per... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-23 If I Don't Go Crazy David Kirby There's a sheriff's car parked near Emerald Mound, and the deputy is looking down at his lap and smiling, which means he's probably doing what everyone else is doing these days, that is, texting, though I think he's k... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-23 Gaius Suetonius Paulinus Mark Ford Gaius Suetonius Paulinus at that time controlled Britain. According to rumor, which loves to pit one man against another, he had grown deeply envious of Corbulo, and yearned to equal his rival's recovery of Armenia... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-23 What the Neighbors Know Melanie McCabe What the neighbors know is so small it might fit in my mailbox. I wish they would put it there, unfolded, explicit（明确的） , so I could be certain of what they think they saw, the shaky black-and-white reel t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-23 Always Something Peter Fallon There's always something -- a trail of bindweed（旋花类植物） trumpeting September the length of field wall and worn fences; that clamp of silage（青贮） an ember（灰烬，余烬） on the left as you leave here, smouldering... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-23 Lord and Chariot Rickey Laurentiis I say the dead done caught me in a special knot and lured, and dragged me to the interior. I say his face is strange here, a moment cruel but not without its silk, its earned sadness. He asks me to touch it, so I t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-05 Work Ryan Teitman Some mornings, the clouds settle rooftop low, holding us in place like a specimen slide. I spend my days wondering how a hammer weighs the hand that holds it, or how the starlings apron（围裙，停机坪） the stoplights at Alcatraz an... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-05 Gravity Karl Plank When night calls for sounds to cease, the barred owl yet cries Who cooks for you? and somewhere a woman slippers through the dark to a kitchen where water drips（滴水槽） a slow beat on the worn basin. She nooses the tap with stri... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-05 The Wild Justine Cook The buzzing of a ladybug（瓢虫） above the bathroom mirror sounds like a small plane considering a landing on my head, bowed toward the executioner's block -- the sink. My hands cup water like a supplicant（恳求者） , asking fo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-05 Mother, Pressed Sarah Rose Nordgren She instructs me in her vacant（空虚的） way to identify the flower by looking inside the blossom -- deep inside the blossom to spy its waxy（柔软的，蜡色的） alchemy（点金术，魔力） , the sight of her pink skirt... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-05-19 The Invention of Death Gregory Djanikian Nothing was so mysterious as your body coming to a close, the winches（绞盘） of your arms and legs slackening（使缓慢） , your mouth loosened. You were lying under a white coverlet（被单，床罩） as if under... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-05-19 Ezra Becoming Kosher Eleanor Stanford What's memory but a shucked oyster, salt rimed and shivering? At one and a half, he pointed at the ceiling fan, said rotate, as though his mouth was origin of some first turning. So many rules to be a Jew, my mo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-05-19 Tense Benjamin S. Grossberg My species has one for nouns in the process of passing: say, a planet you no longer stand on but which still exerts on（施加于） you its considerable tug, the fist of its massy core reaching up through groin（腹股沟） and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-05-19 For the Birds Cathryn Essinger At the farmer's market the grocer has decided to give me a Bible lesson as I fumble for（摸索，瞎摸） my wallet to purchase a squash. This one is called the Crown of Thorns, he says, to remind us of the cross, and here... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-23 With age comes experience and with experience comes knowledge and understanding. No one individual is ever completed with his or her growth. For the wisest of all men has death to face. And with death imminent（即将来临的） for all, one will still h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-23 My one true friend Germaine A true friend is always there for you. A person who will help, with all your problems. The one whom you can trust, With all your secrets. And the one who cheer you up when you are lonely. That is a friend. I want to meet.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-23 On Changes Irene Dunlap Change is the only absolute in the world, the only thing that you can depend on. Nothing stays the same. Tomorrow will come, bringing with it new beginnings and sometimes unexpected endings. You can hold on to the past and ge... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-17 The New Song W. S. Merwin For some time I thought there was time and that there would always be time for what I had a mind to do and what I could imagine going back to and finding it as I had found it the first time but by this time I do not know wh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-17 Open Book Melissa Balmain Time was, your hands were on me night and day. (The thrill along my spine!) Of course I flipped for you, from A to Z and back to A, not once suspecting our romantic script was doomed (and how), you fickle（浮躁的） , shallo... 阅读全文>>