Before the Show by Donna J. Gelagotis Lee
“Before the Show” by Donna J. Gelagotis Lee Under the lone light bulb like a fluorescent moon, with the smell of wood, concrete under our feet. Clip clock. The snap of the crossties to the halter. I comb the mane until it’s silky & you separate the thin strands of hair and cross each one...
Acts of Bravery by Lois Bradley
“Acts of Bravery, Day 1 & 3” by Lois Bradley It would be easier to allow the current to take me swirling, bobbing about in half-lidded repose. But that is not where my artwork happens. Artwork that means something is not created in a languorous vaccum, but when my mind is tense. Alert. Engaged. Open. ____________________ Share your response to this work, in any form, here Lois Bradley...
Bracelets by G. Evelyn Lampart
Bracelets by G. Evelyn Lampart Sophie is wearing bracelets – I can hear them jangling. I can’t take my eyes off her face to look at them because she’ll think she isn’t interesting. That would break her stream of confidential I am special speak. She is talking non-stop again. About herself. Herself as a woman who is jealous of younger women, the 25-year-olds, with privilege, and with trust funds. I understand. I tell her...
we should have by Carrie Nassif
we should have By Carrie Nassif we, the sisterhood of barbed wire museums who among us isn’t a collection of prickly, of misused connections of twisting pointed links crafted by thumb and elbow-grease once wound-tight-over-driftwood wires long since uncoiled from their uprights those fence-mending callouses all smoothed away with time it was yellow polaroids ago water over rocks under bridges we should have lassoed...