David P. Miller The End of That a golden shovel, from Talking Heads’ “Once in a Lifetime” And both you and I may end before we say “Bind our shaken hearts to this whole staring disaster.” Shroud yourself, my personal god. Blanch for what your deep devoted have torched for your nostrils. I strip away […]

Stephen Gibson At the Nuremberg Museum American GIs would have learned from movies and posters during basic training that each poison gas had a different smell—in the museum video, Göring won’t look at camp survivors. Each gas was compared to something familiar, so any city kid or farm boy could tell—GIs would have learned about […]

Julien Berman Lost When in the course of my many events I stumble far from the pack Like the fathers of America I panic, agonizing over each step forward. The King’s last breath goodbye to the one being lost Is a sultry blessing; It splits the metal shackle tying the colony down. And lets America […]

David P. MillerLady Liberty in Photographs The head, World Fair, Paris, 1878 A bust severed just below the breastbone,colossal head denoted Monumentde L’Independence, flanked by park benchespoised for Parisian midday slumps.Men in bowler hats retreat out of her range,staring stock-still behind a barrierof bentwood chairs. Others twistup the spiral stair immured within her,poke their petite […]

Roy Bentley Umbrella It’s, you know, that true love thing. Divorced but friends. Still pretty tight. So just fine with being here with me. At the office of a urologist in Ohio. If she has a “tell” (that she loves me), this morning it’s her looking away before the needle enters my penis, a needle […]

David P. Miller The Parable of the Sower The teacher said: A sower went out to sow. Some seeds fell along the path. The birds devoured them and straightway perished, wailing to their bird god. Other seeds fell on rocky ground. The rock disintegrated, rasping into a tainted air. The people came to look where […]