Browsing Category Prose, Poetry, and Art

Body of Actual

in Fiction Spring 2023 on April 20, 2023 April 18, 2023

I always wanted to be a weatherwoman. It was a simple and steady flight inside of me that encountered little turbulence. I liked being at the center of something so fundamental, something that affected everyone,…

Drive Me Home

Where I live, abandoned buildings lean precariously towards roads carved by oxen the first time they sloughed this forest to the ground. The only road to my home is held in place by roots of…

Bukhoor

in Poetry Shadow Play and Light Work on March 23, 2023 April 3, 2023

To cleanse a home of bad smells, those old burn pits from decades ago; bring to the earth and our hands large gusts of rich white billows; welcome guests, let it travel through their hair…

Liquid Skin

in Nonfiction Shadow Play and Light Work on March 16, 2023 March 16, 2023

Under the bad neon hardware store lighting in brunch and boutique Ranelagh I flap a six-tint color swatch at my med school classmate. As if a ticket on a commuter train, nudging to get hole-punched…

#6 (1997)

in Fiction Shadow Play and Light Work on March 9, 2023 March 9, 2023

Essie’s got hair like a dried dandelion. So blonde it’s almost gray, all scraggly thin and light looking. So short you can see right through to her scalp. Sitting in the desk behind her, I…