May 31, 2024
Shibboleth: A Mapping / Jishin-no-ben
The Kenyon Review · “Shibboleth: A Mapping /Jishin-no-ben” by Lee Ann Roripaugh 1.In computers, a shibboleth provides accessto a single sign-on portal. A series of code searching for certain attributes […]
May 31, 2024
Python Hunters
People expect water. They expect an expanse of black water blinking in the sun. They expect the sun to be hot and the water to be cool. They hope to […]
May 31, 2024
Grief Lessons
The first time I see Eva she is standing over my father’s body. Eva places the back of her hand against my father’s forehead as if checking his temperature. She […]
May 31, 2024
To My Brother, Whistling
The Kenyon Review · “To My Brother, Whistling” by Courtney Flerlage Which you’ve only just taught yourself, a man now at twenty-four, tones scratchy & blurred as you walk throughour […]
May 31, 2024
Or it’s strip malls for the foxes!
The Kenyon Review · “Or it’s strip malls for the foxes” by Laura Villareal In Virginia the only hope for foxes is old moneyOld money preserving acreage on private estatesPrivate […]
May 31, 2024
Interludes: Local Poem
Everyone has gathered by the side of the road.Picking up garbage is a kind of penanceoffered by the local church.I’m driving past the crowd, rememberingwhen the main road of town […]
May 31, 2024
Interludes: Distance
Roadblocks — there is always something dead around the curve.You saw a dead rabbit, a dead deer, a beaver there, or was it a badger,a groundhog, or what you called a woodchuck.At […]
May 31, 2024
Contact
The Kenyon Review · “Contact” by Mohan Sikka I held Mummy’s broken bones in my hand. It had been fifteen days since she’d been cremated on a pyre of logs, […]
May 31, 2024
A Highway Runs Through Town
A room with a sink. Talking to you through a curtain, on the toilet.The cabin’s wood-panel, piñon scent.I’m not tired. Everything soothes me.Blue corn blue sky blue stone.If you let […]
May 31, 2024
The Last Real Cowboy
There’s nothing in New Mexico,he croons, Highway 111 to Las Cruces. The last real cowboy is a Palestinian boyin a black-and-white photo on the wall he’s five years old. The […]
May 31, 2024
Zodiac of Earthly Signs
May 31, 2024
Slunk
The Skunk Lady lines a wall of her home with stacked cat carriers and clean pet bowls. In 2001, Deb Cipriano transformed her place in Ohio into a safe harbor […]