The Girl in the Apartment Below As the train whistled past the lonely road, She stood still. The stale neon…
Browsing: poetry
Gluttony Moves In to Stay The mother worries and hovers, pecking things. Brings a slimming duvet, toes to nose. Daughter’s…
Second November Two years alive without you day into night somehow winds a life. Day into night in rooms where…
The Mother I kept them close when they were young. The boys could roam as far as the mulberry in…
What Mother Means Clara Lemlich young Ukranian immigrant gave a Yiddish speech I’ve Got Something to Say after the Triangle…
Octogenarian Sips Glass Half-Full When I walk down the street, a stream of smiles rolls towards me like a school…
We Women Three “Oh no,” my daughter and I gulped in unison as we saw the slack elastic of my…
An Interview by J.P. Howard, MER VOX Editor-at-Large, of Mireya Perez-Bustillo and Patsie Alicia Ifill I’ve been thinking a lot…
The Mother Dispossessed Curator: Patricia Brody Featured Poets Srividya Kannan Ramachandran Elisabeth Frischauf Esther Cohen Ellen C. Goldberg Lisa J Cihlar…
Review by Bunny Goodjohn It is hard not to feel something of the voyeur when interacting with the short-run chapbook…