Posts tagged Portland Review

“Across the Street” & “Encyclopedia”

in Poetry Winter 2025 on March 2, 2025 March 2, 2025

Across the Street Tree roots buckled the drivewayuntil weeds grew knee-highthrough the twisting cracks.Haggard men always seemed to belighting cigarettes with pale cupped hands.Even in winter they wore only T-shirts,each with a pack of Viceroysrolled…

Frankenstein’s Monster and the Things We Don’t Know

I don’t know a trans guy who wants bottom surgery. I don’t know a trans guy who knows what it entails. I know eight trans guys who did a brief Google image search before clearing…

Cry Goat

in Poetry Winter 2025 on January 26, 2025 January 26, 2025

We stopped playing basketball as soon as Pastor Rigo shepherded a goat into the church’scourtyard. The creature was past its prime: its teeth were yellow banana Chiclets; its horns stuckout thick and gnarled like croissants;…

WHILE THE BOYS STARGAZE

in Fall 2024 Poetry on January 5, 2025 January 5, 2025

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Grounded

in Fall 2024 Nonfiction Prose, Poetry, and Art on December 29, 2024 December 27, 2024

Dressed in a medical gown, I sit in an uncomfortable plastic chair behind a foldable cloth and metal partition. I stare at the stains on the partition, trying not to imagine their origins. A blonde…