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In Fear of Spring

Jeff Baker   Please, not so soon. For now let me be simplified—no face, just a dull push of electricity descending the spine. What if I wake tomorrow to geese formationed for descent, or waddling out onto broken ice—or to robins with breasts like something gnawed open, pestering the ground for worms? How could the…

Key Food

Bernadette Mayer   alone at mischance I wish I were up on the ceiling the guidebook’s merry Avenue A dances with the city’s in emotion a raw stocking of old ground round who? what? is the refried beans Spanish or what the stolen mud cart across the descriptive clouds on how’d they erect that bulky…

Presentations of Fruit Stands in January

Bernadette Mayer   So called inauguration of 1981 Proposal of love from an inept suitor Pity poor instinctual America love all Wrong greedy mismatched middle class mates Is all doesnt need to be said at Liberty Meanwhile on the streets powerless in the funny Light a man named I Cant Remember Anything said I’m not…

Uneasy Planet

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Tony Grooms   Mr. Lawson was going on a binge. It would cost him 500 dollars and a 45k job, not counting the booze and the carry-out meals. He was single now and didn’t have to pay for rooms. When he went on binges, he had the girls, the women, come right up to his…

One with the Tiger: The Animal Within

One with the Tiger Steven Church Soft Skull Press, 2016 ISBN: 978-1593766504 Think of the last time you went to the zoo. This is how I recall my most recent visit. An oppressively hot and humid summer day; all around me sweaty parents lugged bulky strollers and neared the brink of losing their mind (if…

Announcing Monthly Book Reviews!

“Phoebe is pleased to announce the publication of monthly book reviews beginning this November!  Phoebe looks for reviews of literary prose and poetry titles which are recent, forthcoming, or deserving of a wider audience and additional consideration. We are especially interested in titles from independent or small presses. Generally, the length of a review should be somewhere…

When the Baptists Came to Croatia: An Interview with Josip Novakovich

Issue 33.2 Fall 2003 Jessica Anthony Born in Croatia, Josip Novakovich emigrated to the United States when he was twenty years old. He has published two collections of stories, Salvation and Other Disasters (1998) and Yolk (1995), a collection of essays, Apricots from Chernobyl (1995), two books on the art of fiction writing, as well…

Schizophrenia

Dorothea Lasky   A bunny came to my room and gave me a wish. He was actually part bunny and part man. He had waited for a new head but no one could find him one. His head was enormously large. He had walked into my room and smarted his head on the ceiling. I…

Paranoia

Dorothea Lasky   I fell in love once with a train conductor. He used to oil the trains with his urine and belch on himself. We would go places with his parents and they would belch too. No I wasn’t surprised. My wits were always about me. I stayed demure like a demon, quietly reapplying…

Every Little Movement Has A Meaning All Its Own

Faye Moskowitz Krakow, the old bobeh used to say, was not built in a day. A pity I didn’t meet her sooner; I might have spared myself some knocks on the way to growing up. All limp hair and baby fat, I was the kind of girl whose doting parents comfort themselves with, wait until…