Volume 2.4 — August 2007
Death Valley Junction, CA by Karen Halverson
Editors' Notes
Rejecting Silence
Non-fiction
Sayantani Dasgupta | bio
Collision
March mornings can sometimes be balmy, just as it was today, although Delhi is supposed to remain pleasant this time of the year....
Fiction
Semia Harbawi | bio
Shorn
The judge’s voice was stern and low-keyed: “This court sentences the accused Omar Laârbi Samet to eight months of imprisonment for the physical and moral injuries he inflicted on the plaintiff Sana Samet.” My eyes locked with my brother’s in a staring contest....
Photography
Karen Halverson | bio
Poetry
Ronda Broatch | bio
How We Begin to Repair
Honeysuckle, jasmine, lily. Heavy heads
of peony droop before the shears. No rain...
Jeff Calhoun | bio
How to Make Yourself a Small Target
Never build a gun from scratch.
Better yet, pretend not to know
the ontology of a gun, claim ignorance...
Jared Carter | bio
Disclosure
In the field walking
he sensed a darkness,
some shadow crossing...
Not at All
It was not an apparition,
not a voice beginning to speak.
More like water finding its way...
Pat Daneman | bio
Before
I was an egg in two parts in my grandmother’s hand. I was an apple...
Times Square
Here is a photo taken so long ago
no one had any gray hairs or
drinking problems or a burden
of sadness too large to carry....
Harvey Goldner | bio
Merrily, Merrily
We called it big money for a long time,
then we raked a pile to burn and
learned that its burning is delightful...
Benjamin Russell | bio
Fugue State
In my hand I’m holding
a can of tuna in aisle five
when the lights go out....