The Garden That Never Dreams
Poem to think about what it's like to garden. From 2012 "Top City Poetry" curated by literary editor Dennis...
POETRY + PROSE
State Bird of Kansas
by George Paris Meadowlark intent on being heard in spite of wind, rises from modest nest ...
The Very Edge
Join Flying Ketchup Press as it releases its first collection of international voices in poetry. “The Very Edge” is...
1000 Words
Ben is thirty-four and a tattoo artist known for his lettering. People are always surprised when they first meet...
The Lot's Fall
Beyond the winter swimming pool where the tarp caves in, its blue palm full of snow, is the matted...
Summer Warbler: Showano, Wisconsin
Dusk. After love we walk a teetering balance of summer twilight. A tiny dull-lemon warbler silhouetted atop a pole...
The Saucer
I just missed it. Just caught a glimpse of it, stretch the way I breathe out across the day....
The Jackalope
I have never seen the crossbreed of legend, except in artwork, postcards from Kansas, ashtrays in roadhouses, bars and...
After a photograph by Terry Evans
Taxidermist’s artworks, corsages, lie in a hatbox. Horrible beauty of talons and shiny thorn beaks. Loosened petal-fronds release hues...
[history becomes fate when]
history becomes fate when it’s over with no more disjunct than this world A gateway timeout occurred The server...
and then