Cheryl Dumesnil
A Dissertation on Quantum Entanglement as a Love Song

Cheryl Dumesnil - A Dissertation on Quantum Entanglement as a Love Song

Poetry
Cheryl Dumesnil's books include the poetry collections Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes and In Praise of Falling (University of Pittsburgh Press); a memoir, Love Song for Baby X (Ig… Read more »
Jessica Piazza
Alice, 41

Jessica Piazza - Alice, 41

Poetry
Jessica Piazza is the author of three poetry collections and a children's book. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Jessica now lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches at the University of Southern… Read more »
Joshua Martin
Hamlet on the Shuttle

Joshua Martin - Hamlet on the Shuttle

Poetry
Joshua Martin is finishing up his PhD in poetry at Georgia State University. He has published poems or has poems forthcoming in The South Atlantic Review, The Potomac Review, Salamander, Carolina… Read more »
Matthew W. Baker
I’m told the story of how my college-age father “fell” from a building but survived,

Matthew W. Baker - I’m told the story of how my college-age father “fell” from a building but survived,

Poetry
Matthew W. Baker grew up in Pittsburgh, PA but currently lives in Reno, NV and teaches high school English. He received his MFA from the University of Nevada, Reno. His work has appeared in The Vitni… Read more »
Stacey Park
In There

Stacey Park - In There

Poetry
Stacey Park is a Korean-Canadian writer living in southern California at the moment. She is a PhD student and assistant editor for Foothill Journal. Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in… Read more »
Stephen Tuttle
Leah, Unloved

Stephen Tuttle - Leah, Unloved

Poetry
Stephen Tuttle's fiction and prose poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Normal School, Hayden's Ferry Review, and elsewhere.… Read more »
Rachel Morgan
Pray v. Prey

Rachel Morgan - Pray v. Prey

Poetry
Rachel Morgan is the author of the chapbook, Honey & Blood, Blood & Honey (Final Thursday Press, 2017), and she is the co-editor of Fire Under the Moon: An Anthology of Contemporary Slovene… Read more »
Sara Eddy
Starvation

Sara Eddy - Starvation

Poetry
Sara Eddy is a writing instructor at Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts. Some of her poems have appeared recently in Zingara, Tishman Review, and Heartwood, and are forthcoming in Raw Art… Read more »

Starvation

Sara Eddy

In early April, dirty snow and tender shoots snapping under my boots, I hike out to the hives to listen for humming. Ear pressed to the cold wood I feel my dread crack open. Down in the dark between the frames the colony mass is frozen— they crouch in a ball, pointing to the center, the omphalos that was their queen. There weren’t enough of them— their little bodies weren’t enough to keep her warm, and they starved and froze vibrating with life till the end, so close to honey and pollen. Like the horses in Pompeii, preserved in the traces of harness and cart, almost alive, they labor even in death.   In the still-frozen garden, holding up this frame of ruin, I feel my belly drop out, and the loss expands outward— larger circles of decimation extinction and slow emergency rippling from this gentle decease, hive upon hive lost, and den and nest, hole and warren, eyrie and byre all empty all still—I struggle to pull myself back to just this, just this one hive and what I can do.
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