Jeffrey Morgan
Another Man They Think I Am at Heart

Jeffrey Morgan - Another Man They Think I Am at Heart

Poetry
Jeffrey Morgan is the author of Crying Shame. His poems have appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Pleiades, Rattle, Third Coast, and West Branch. Read more »
Elizabeth Langemak
Green Hole

Elizabeth Langemak - Green Hole

Poetry
Elizabeth Langemak lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Read more »
Mark Lee Webb
It is Raining and the Planks on Lewes Pier Bleed

Mark Lee Webb - It is Raining and the Planks on Lewes Pier Bleed

Poetry
Mark Lee Webb is a native of Kentucky, but as a teenager lived in California. He knows where a skeg is on a surfboard and how to get from Malibu to Westwood via Mulholland. But he also knows how to… Read more »
Moriah Cohen
On Learning the Year Used to be 410 Days Long

Moriah Cohen - On Learning the Year Used to be 410 Days Long

Poetry
Moriah Cohen’s poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Hoot: A Mini Literary Magazine on a Postcard, Stone Highway Review, and Narrative where she was runner-up in… Read more »
Sally Rosen Kindred
Proposing to Dickens

Sally Rosen Kindred - Proposing to Dickens

Poetry
Sally Rosen Kindred is the author of two poetry books from Mayapple Press, No Eden (2011) and Book of Asters (2014), and a chapbook, Darling Hands, Darling Tongue (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2013). Her… Read more »
Amy Wright
Scientists Film Inside A Flying Insect

Amy Wright - Scientists Film Inside A Flying Insect

Poetry
Amy Wright is the Nonfiction Editor of Zone 3 Press and Zone 3 journal and the author of four poetry chapbooks. She received a Peter Taylor fellowship for the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, an… Read more »
John A. Nieves
The Moment of the Fall

John A. Nieves - The Moment of the Fall

Poetry
John A. Nieves has poems forthcoming or recently published in journals such as: Southern Review, Poetry Northwest, and Fugue. He won the 2011 Indiana Review Poetry Contest and his first book, Curio… Read more »

Proposing to Dickens

Sally Rosen Kindred

[Little Red Riding Hood] was my first love. I felt that if I could have married
Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.
—Charles Dickens, A Christmas Tree


I want to be your Little Red.
I want to meet you in a wood.

We both know you were a flea-weak husband.
I don’t want your hearthstone, your whining ring, spoon

unfolding the thick Christmas pudding
in the same cellar basin where I’d need

to stir the children’s wash.
No dusk. No prone spoon.

Instead, our bodies tall between alders
(their thin leaves shaking like ghosts) and yours

in fur’s smoke fury, asking
which path I’ll take.

I want to find you in a bloodied blue dress,
grandmother, triumph-lined cheeks, saying Guess

what?
and The better to feed you with!
slinging for me your knife’s wild story, a full bowl

of wolf stew.
I want to wait in my red child-

hood, wine-dark
as a closed book—

wait wolf-belly hard
for you to come with an axe,

blade eighteen chapters wide
to cut me out

of that mistaken house
as you did when I was twelve:

your Copperfield, wired on a shilling’s worth
of whelks and pippins, lifting me away

from the mother spooned down
on the black den couch

and into the noon grit of your market streets—Southwerk
to Blackfriars, Hungerford Stairs—your mouth’s dirty light

telling me
through, in sickness

and in hood, till death do us bread-
in-the-basket, death do us

teeth, my huntsman, my
alder, my Charles: your words,

my wolf,
first bliss.
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