Contributor Series 5: Dramatis Personae A-head By Alice Shapiro Beating footprints over concrete leave marks and shadows if we turn to look. The neck, curious as Lot’s wife commands reversal and possible blockage to a pleasant walk. The head, that fragile instrument of peace or evil guides and reasons, soothes, abuses invests, invites, deletes. Mine […]

Contributor Series 5: Dramatis Personae Man Made By Ivan Jenson I am always on exhibit you can walk around me you can touch me you can read up about me you can take note of the year I was created clearly I am an artifact of my time and I have my place and the […]

Contributor Series 5: Dramatis Personae Phantom Limbs of Family Trees By Bryan Borland I am history’s orphaned sibling, the retold story of the men in my family and our phantom brothers. Granddaddy named my mother after Sergeant Morley Joe Colvin, 323rd Bomber Squadron, 91st Bomber Group, a nosedive casualty, he holds our place in the […]

Contributor Series 5: Dramatis Personae A Sestina for Little Picasso By Brad Nelson My son’s favorite color–red, but he also likes orange, prefers colored pencils yellow, wants his crayons green, likes to watercolor with blue, and loves to finger paint in purple. Giraffes should be purple spotted in red with five legs of blue– or […]

Contributor Series 5: Dramatis Personae Especially Borges By Ray Sharp I woke last night on the living room floor confused about the moon and the orientation of windows uncertain even of my right hand and left and if my dog were a god. Would Borges have known if he were the same man from day […]