Category: Published Issues
There is a Rumor That During Construction of one of Portland’s Prominent Thoroughfares in the 1850s, Some Workers Died in a Freak Accident and the Road was Built Atop Their Bodies
by Mike Bove The men buried beneath Commercial Street are hardly resting. They died where they worked, stayed where they fell, and rolled only
Twenty Years On
by Suzanne Osborne Is dead acute — the first gasp of loss and relief when your jagged presence was torn from my life? Or is it chronic — the long
Call Me Ish . . . kabibble
by Suzanne Osborne Yeah, never really did the whale hunt thing. Mind you, I have had some strange bedfellows, and I know a shipwreck when I swim
El Rio del Oso
by Larry Schug What is the name of rain when it fails to fall from a cloud What do you call a river no water flowing within its banks having
Escarpment Trail
by Gerard Grealish Escarpment Trail for Brenna Had I not forgotten exactly what it meant we would have hiked a different course back the same we
Play Under Review
by Gerard Grealish With the clock running down the guard drove to the basket. Before the ref ’s whistle stopped shrieking Foul! my brother
there I was on the bench with a contraption
by Roger Bernard Smith you’ve heard this story a dozen times her arms above her head elbows at her side a trick with her backside tucked into the
she ran
by Roger Bernard Smith she ran a foam gun in the modular home plant friday nights we jitterbugged at gleason’s on forest ave before they
Plum Dandy
by Jennifer Raha Not intrinsically but through misplaced items — a lost scarf, a necklace, a turquoise bracelet. Nothing substantive. She no
Ruse
by Jennifer Raha Like the first Ferris wheel, he pulled me up, looped me like unspooled thread. Like rope. Apothecary, roulette muse. Azure