fiction, poetry & more

Acorn Street, Boston                                                        March 2023

Acorn Street, Boston        March 2023

“Is rhyming bad? does a poem about trees and water help sell it?/Why are so many bad poems published?”  MORE

“Oh, how we celebrated the successful end of treatment, Jack’s 65th birthday, and my 50th on that October …”  MORE

“Father’s church is in a 20 x 40-ft. shed behind our house. It has a corrugated tin roof and metal siding that is painted blue.”  MORE

“They were little arsonists all, aged five to eleven, deemed too dangerous for foster care.”  MORE

“In the face of such raw
Thunderous power
Time now to sit,
         Press nose to glass …”  MORE

“’I used to give kiddies rides in the bucket … I wanted them to feel the capacity of the human spirit to rise from the venal and …’”  MORE

FROM THE ARCHIVES

“NEPTUNE SOCIETY”
Kim Trevathan

“You started jumping off quarry ledges a few weeks after the funeral. You liked the look of the girls …”  MORE

Luminous. That’s what I thought when I looked at her skin—she glowed like the moon when the sky is …”  MORE

POETRY OPEN WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN APRIL!

CONTEST ARCHIVES

Cover photo: Tiffany Chan/Unsplash

Cover photo:
Tiffany Chan/Unsplash