A New Kind of Literary Pulse

Purple Lakers cap, just back, from a family trip to Los Angeles. Or maybe, we had been to the moon ... [+]

I sit in a chair that melts to nothing beneath me. I close my eyes because she says I can and I ... [+]

I look out the car window across night fields squinting; I can see lives I never lived I drive on ... [+]

Keep in mind there were three daughters, One graceful and pretty, one fierce and gallant, one sickly ... [+]

Binaural classics on repeat while she sleeps and writes and eats, and D, vitamin variety, for sun ... [+]

"I may be some time," he said, easing on his fleece-lined boots. We laughed and clinked our empty ... [+]

Amongst my mother-in-law's hoarded treasures, a rusted Normal Rockwell tin weighted down ... [+]

Like a waterfall Flowing over the aged jagged rocks It has formed over the years. The rusty gutte ... [+]

Like pasteboard, the seeping planks buckle underfoot, marked easily with fingernail or jagged ... [+]

He said, "Everyone is buying it like mad." "And you need another 40 rolls?" I said. He didn't ... [+]

Dare we invite the dreamwolf in, to jump through our chaste window, carry us over the midnight snow ... [+]

At first, it seemed a movement of spontaneous joy; a pause, a stretch of arms and hands, a bending ... [+]

I muse my bed deep think to the ceiling I hungry the biscuit tin lazy the sofa watch an old wa ... [+]

I don't recommend it. You might wind up like me, with spiders on your lips, crawling out like words ... [+]

Of course, that was the same year the tomatoes never came of age.They remained that reserved ... [+]

when the morning still brought mist and sweatshirtshot coffee in mugs of every shape and colorwe ... [+]

Rumor has it the lake is a graveyard, she says.There are bones down there, tumbled smooth and ... [+]

"Sometimes," he said, trimming a bud,"You have to interfere.But every other time,you simply let it ... [+]

It's okay to rip flowers outand to set fire to vines,to pluck petals off withoutcounting to love me ... [+]

we spent seven years planning our route thieved maps and charts marked the dangerous spaces with ... [+]