Essay |
“How The Sausage Is Made” and “Dispatch”
“He eats a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and watches a television show about vocabulary. His father calls to say goodnight and is mildly disgruntled that the child is watching television.”
Poetry |
“After Feeding”
Poetry |
“‘We Have Aaron Hernandez’s Brain'”
Fiction |
from Études de silhouettes, micro-fictions by Pierre Senges
“… by the momentum of this detachment, I am able to remove the me who occupies these lines and is composing them, and who still ardently longs to exist on paper …”
Essay |
“The Gift of the God”
“… they come shopping for organic tomatoes because they heard organic might cure their cancer or black lung. They come lugging their oxygen-tanks along with them …”
Poetry |
“Garbage Night”
Poetry |
“Wrestler’s Lament”
Poetry |
“Marcescence”
Essay |
“Rated M For Mature”
“When I ask him if he thinks Grand Theft Auto could influence kids in negative ways, he says, ‘Maybe some kids. But Mom, I know it’s just a game.'”
Poetry |
“All the Ships Have Come and Gone”
Fiction |
“The Other Side of the Dock”
“Looking at the sea too long made me nauseated, thinking inevitably of biology classes, of the teacher’s amphibious hands, explaining the cycle of life and of all those fish reproducing themselves so close to me, in a lukewarm salty broth.”