Two Books : Longer Looks
Mixed media artist Ellen Wiener on the featured art for issue 16.
One Square Inch of Silence
I said goodbye to my father for the first and last time, after his death, in the quietest place in the United States.
Two Poems
He owns seven New Balance shoes, all rights / that have lost in this house their one-time partners.
Three Poems
Here, lens flare recalls the burn holes in her nightgown.
The Ad Hoc Cartography of Nightmares
The problem with draining the world from your head / is what rushes in to take its place.
Four Poems
A little rasp in its throat whittled the exhaling air. The auk laid down at last / and stayed there, its breath / so quiet I didn’t know when / it gave way to a greater quiet.
The First Otter and the Moon
I would like to tell you about my mother’s erratic heart, or share what I know of Las Patronas
in this poem my sister doesn’t die
so i keep renewing her favorite book / on our shared library card.