Scatarie Island, Cape Breton Laid bare, Body broken – Mercury identified Sean Howard Sean Howard is the author of Local Calls (CBU Press, 2009), Incitements (Gaspereau Press, 2011) and The…
The first fifty years there was a lot of worm and wet dirt caught between our fingers. A few times I considered letting go, decomposing myself, but things took a…
I can’t tell what it is we leave behind. Stories, most likely, that make our grandmothers young again, girls like those we know instead of women like those we don’t.…
Orphan (n) Greek: Orphanos: fatherless: literally: deprived -Orbho: bereft from father My father is in the audience and he is smiling and he is a ghost and this scares you…
Do you swear this will never happen again, for the spell you cast has unmade me. Waiting and waiting for the nausea of betrayal to subside. No one remembers my…
Now, we take the sun, all of it. It lights up our insides; the smoke reaches our brains and leaves us wide eyed and dazed with no plans, we draw…
By the time we knew for sure that there were rats living in the kitchen of our apartment on Wrightwood, it was almost December and they had become as bold…
What else can be said about the aftertaste of her alto? 170-proof vodka upstaged by its wispy twist of tangerine peel. Classical ballet performed in…
You always spoke of Peter, not with your lips or your adorable lisp from the gap in your teeth, but with your almond eyes; with every glance at the window…
Izumi, Japan (I) I can’t recall your face, as if we are constantly turning away from one other. A breeze flattens the blue yukata against your hips, stirs the long…
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