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The Gig EconPoetry

The Gig Econ

Lawrence GeorgeSeptember 21, 2019

Uber drivers drive reckless, they loop, round and round circling Big Ben, throwing fade patterns impossible to defend selling shirts, touchdown! outside Heinz Field…

Perverse and SaintlyPoetry

Perverse and Saintly

Cameron McClureSeptember 20, 2019

it started by sucking cyanide from the pits on the edge of a berried desert brutal emptiness dripped from within cramping confusing causing seizures…

she has a couple of rugsPoetry

she has a couple of rugs

Soodabeh SaeidniaSeptember 17, 2019

silk for those who gladly take off shoes wool for those in fear of dancing barefoot

One Way of Looking at Thirteen BlackbirdsPoetry

One Way of Looking at Thirteen Blackbirds

Dick HolmesSeptember 16, 2019

One Way of Looking at Thirteen Blackbirds with a tip of the hat to Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” is…

Encounter with a clownPoetry

Encounter with a clown

Marc WoodwardSeptember 15, 2019

I met a clown in plain clothes drinking in a bar—of course. He told me a kid once asked him “Are you a real…

Anna and the ScourgePoetry

Anna and the Scourge

RC JamesSeptember 13, 2019

We memorized poems to pass them on, past the strident winds out of the Kremlin. When I walk the avenue lined with our history,…

San FranciscoPoetry

San Francisco

Marc WoodwardSeptember 11, 2019

“It’s an odd thing but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco.” —Oscar Wilde Sundown sets the painted ladies dancing…

Before DivorcePoetry

Before Divorce

Eliot JacobsonSeptember 5, 2019

We bought our Ford Falcon for $200. There were spiders in the ashtrays. You kept a closet full of men's XL shirts and always…

Hiding from the sunPoetry

Hiding from the sun

Michael AshleySeptember 3, 2019

there’s only a few stupider things to waste your time on like avoiding death or praying

Toby, Tobias DogPoetry

Toby, Tobias Dog

Doug FlahertySeptember 2, 2019

He mouths a left-over thigh, whines a new path in the grass, tries to tell himself about bone, tongue-licking the marrow to taste of…

A Man, a Banana, Panama!Poetry

A Man, a Banana, Panama!

Edmund ContiAugust 29, 2019

(Just so you know, I usually take a walk after breakfast. And as I leave the dining room I may take a banana with…