March 1, 2024
from “The Picture Pines”
AUTHOR’S NOTE The following is an excerpt from an ongoing project titled “The Picture Pines.” The text inhabits and effaces American colonial official and photographer Dean C. Worcester’s 1914 survey […]
March 1, 2024
The Journal of Anodyne Historical Documents
The Kenyon Review · “The Journal of Anodyne Historical Documents” by Peter M. Kazon Vol. 5, No. 1 Fall 2055 The following document was discovered in the papers of ANDREW […]
March 1, 2024
The Replacement
The Kenyon Review · “The Replacement” by Drew Zeiba 1. I had not given the ultrasound technician my complete medical history. I did not tell him that I once took […]
March 1, 2024
我疼你
I. & to the body—be honest—what is more dangerous than mistaking you for a poem? For stanzas begged open, swallowing rain. Shouldn’t you be heavy by now? You throw your […]
March 1, 2024
February Clear
Sky rinsed blue above the yellow grass and wind-shorn clouds as thin as mist— how often I have failed to look when looking would have changed me. I can’t name […]
March 1, 2024
Trial of the Mayfly
The late medieval period saw an influx of animal trials. In spring, a live film on the water’s surface like a wind without point of motion, a gear gone wild […]
March 1, 2024
It’s Still Light
The Kenyon Review · “It’s Still Light” by Sylee Gore I tell you the dream where, beneath a canopy, I held a vigil. The morning air was crystal. If I […]
March 1, 2024
Kind of Greek
The Kenyon Review · “Kind of Greek” by Sylee Gore You had a satchel, we talked in traffic, the bus shelter was as good as a café. For it is […]
March 1, 2024
Black Eye
Look at the little girls. Five or six years old, in trouble. The one on the right, Em, inhabits her red cardigan to the buttoned neck, to nubbiness. Over the […]
March 1, 2024
And/Or
There’s a passage in Second Kings that’s been on my mind: King Jehu is standing below Jezebel’s window, and he’s having trouble counting. Looking up, the king calls out, “Who […]
March 1, 2024
The Rights of the Innkeeper
In a hotel on the shores of Lake Erie, in a hotel too far from shore to see the lake, “The Rights of the Innkeeper” were posted on the inside […]
March 1, 2024
Adam Mickiewicz
My correspondence with Adam Mickiewicz began in an unusual way. I was living in Moscow again, the city appearing to me each morning as if from behind the curtain of […]