The Great Pumpkin Caper
by Ann Tinkham
Last year, the finalists were Flat Bottom Flo, Wo Nelly, Duchess, Gorgeous Gourdy, Flat Jack, Brutis, and Agatha. In the end, Flat Bottom Flo took the prize. […]
Harvest
by Gary Beck
Pass us no beginnings,
for tired of toys
and idle mischief,
we stirred no longer.
And when the first fruits
turned to ashes
in our imploring hands,
and we exhausted tears,
we were left impoverished,
defeated planters.
Strangers on a Train
(Directed by Alfred Hitchcock)
by Kevin Murphy
Gone are the days when you’d mail a pistol via the postal service or bluff a killer’s phone call as the wrong number. And […]
Folly Beach
by Benjamin Pryor
Cascade like a fabulous line of breakers, a feather
tunnel, a slow canter like a show horse
stepping high, and know the beach beauties living
Southern Atlantic, how they wake moving […]
Memento Mori
by Benjamin Pryor
Opening a box of whipstitched cardboard
I feel the lonesome ancestral weft and see
Ma in the tall pasture.
We played games with sticks, toys chipped from slate,
burlap sacks, fish like […]
That Obscure Object of Desire
(Directed by Luis Bunuel)
by Kevin Murphy
It had been raining all afternoon, showed no signs of stopping. I was sitting with Bill, the two of us holed up at Vickery’s. […]
God in Question
by Benjamin Pryor
We have never been what we have wanted to gain,
scooping our family debris, in the way
an apartment garden proudly decomposes.
Garbage fetters the flow, does not care to impose
spent […]
