Excerpts
From Issue 18: "Boy With Flowers In His Mouth" by Phillip Watts Brown (Poetry)
From Issue 19: "The Binding" by Jo'Van O'Neal (Poetry)
From Issue 19: "A Response to a Pair of Forest Plots" Derek Sheffield (Poetry)
This week's poetry excerpt is a timely work by Derek Sheffield after our western summer of wildfires.
From Issue 18: "Early Work," by Carolyn Williams-Noren
From Issue 16: "Disorientation" by Jessica Yuan (Poetry)
From Issue 18: "Vamos," by Emily James
From Issue 18: "first first" by Sara Youngblood Gregory (Poetry)
From Issue 18: "Para Mis Chiquistriquis," by Moncho Alvarado (Poetry)
From Issue 16, "self-evident," by Matthew E. Henry (MEH), (Poetry)
From Issue 16, "Swing," by Angel C. Dye (Poetry)
From Issue 16: "After the Ball," by Max King Cap
When asked which apparatus he would prefer, he answered, “Truck.” His father had been on a truck. He had been a tillerman on the hook-and-ladder. When two fire apparatuses collided during a run, his father became pinned under the wheels of the engine. He spent nearly a year in recuperation. Ever after he carried tire marks across his chest and shoulder. The candidate began his training on Truck 66 in Uptown.
From Issue 17: "Five Seals," by Bethany W. Pope (Poetry)
This week's poetry excerpt by Bethany W. Pope offers a glimpse into what it can truly mean to be captive in their work, "Five Seals."