by Nathan Dennis | Jul 17, 2022
Ryan Keating “He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with him.” Daniel 2:22 He knows what lies in darkness: Shadows slipping into closets With staccato steps whispering Conspiracy; Clumps of envying lizard beings...
by Nathan Dennis | Jun 22, 2022
Andrew Frisardi The valley lies as if in wait—for what? A gray processional of cluster clouds Advances southward over silent crowds Of anonymity. We feel the glut Of discontent inside the gathering distance. Masks inter our faces at our breath’s insistence. *...
by Nathan Dennis | Jun 22, 2022
Hilary Tam No crimson-lipped smiles without Bloodshed. Our prayers hanging on citadels As sacrifice. Do you think heroes are hoisted Onto shoulders, celebration sung like Scripture, without entrails marking their path? Houses turned into synonyms For abattoirs....
by Nathan Dennis | Jun 22, 2022
Amy Gillies They do not remember when they forgot how to look at people, a place, or an object and see a memoir woven into its fabric the story of its past lives No, in this quiet suburban town every action or sentence spoken is its own, separate entity It is...
by Nathan Dennis | Jun 22, 2022
Bryan Myers the French president went to talk to Putin Putin verbally accosted a reporter after she asked her question threatening nuclear war to a foreign journalist was news to me and I stood in a kitchen barefoot and shirtless (some girls had sold me a pot...
by Nathan Dennis | Jun 22, 2022
Bryan Myers I have seen the open road across America, and like those writers before me: there’s not much left to say I held a harp in my hand that I kept in my pocket and at a gas station in south Texas, some guy told me this world was mean I laughed and wrote...
