A New Kind of Literary Pulse

Who can walk today when leaves leapfrog across the boulevard and swirl recklessly round each passing ... [+]

your macbook open on untreated pine coffee brimming with a milky fern cashmere sweater hugging you ... [+]

Your Russian Blue is not crazy when she somersaults off the armchair to run, run run down the end of ... [+]

The seashells near the ocean where I grew up are storytellers. Every morning, feet burning in the ... [+]

After, under the pylon, power lines buzzing, she told about sperm whales that dive to such depths ... [+]

This dictionary defines "rooihout" as a South African tree on page 2624; "aasvogel," a vulture, is ... [+]

I was born, Mom says, dollhouse- ready, pre-Barbie hair a field of curls, the early bird that ... [+]

I dropped anice cube intothe seawhich sort of replied as if tosay you haven't made ... [+]

It begins in the back  garden. ripping up weeds against resistance like being 8 years old again ... [+]

The girl upstairs doesn't know How old I am. I mean old old old I don't know either,  I sit in my ... [+]

What can you do When your mother states "You're on the shelf, Past your sell-by-date"? Say, "Gee ... [+]

The intricate sounds of Orozco's Guitarra and   the beep, beep, from passing automobiles fill  ... [+]

Noun. Consistency in one's personhood regardless of externalities.II cannot escape theveil on my ... [+]

Sure, a few of the vowels are missing,but I'm no dummy,though rushing toward the nextinconsequential ... [+]

Holy is the thingon its slow dance across the night,all chalk-faced and beaming,filling the ... [+]

There was a wildertinge to the air—purple-scented, fennel fronds shaking green as partiesfiligreed ... [+]

A silky warm scent coats the air.Soft layered rose tutus pushtheir blush pale skirtsto float and ... [+]

Here we go tra-la-la Fixing the house, hammer in hand The soles of our feet stained to match The ... [+]

I have seen you, shell-shocked city,Shimmer in the parachute flaresThe day's dust and exhaust ... [+]

The first day of his life on earth began, when a spark of magic from his soul ran out from under his ... [+]