July 25, 2025
Golden Glosa Bird-Watching at Radnor Lake
Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind. My mind. […]
July 25, 2025
Herbert Levine Fashion House, February
July 24, 2025
water chestnuts and the opening wound
before the firstborn of the newlyweds cried her first morning, her father was sent to thefront. local warlords marched north to the river that divided the border. they crawled on […]
July 22, 2025
Low Boy
At a football field tucked between a landfill and a strip mall,students take to the gridiron at halftime to rally for love on earth,and everywhere else. Grassed cheerleader knees erect […]
June 17, 2025
On the Traditional Ode to Melancholy
Strophe: The Soma of DepressionHere is where I miss those conversation sessions with Dr. Morello — while in one of those hospital waiting rooms or coffee shop conversationswith the other old guys […]
June 16, 2025
Son of Gold
After Àyìnlá OmowúràWhen thirsty, I have learnedto ignore the reflections in the water.It was my turn to sit in the cold,our neighborhood was under siege.On such nights, I suspect every […]
June 16, 2025
Death in a Pouch
Water no get enemy, if you fight am unless you wan die Omi o l’ota o, water, e no get enemy —Fela KutiI have been reckless in the past; I […]
June 16, 2025
Crown Made from the Sun
After King Sunny AdeI rolled a ring of magnetsthrough the canals that lead in and out of my city,in search of the crown made from the sun.I thought, like Lot’s […]
June 16, 2025
Knot
The Kenyon Review · “Knot” by Nicole Callihan Bowline. Clove hitch. Anchor. Alpine butterfly. What’s tied to the boat. Or, I felt it rising in my throat. But what was […]
June 16, 2025
Wheelbarrow
The Kenyon Review · “Wheelbarrow” by Nicole Callihan The wood beneath the tarp in the corner of the shed is to be stacked into the wheelbarrow to be carried down […]
June 16, 2025
Thimble
The Kenyon Review · “Thimble” by Nicole Callihan A small cap usually of metal. In the early twenty-first century, artists of the East End used it to measure tequila. As […]