Bad Gun                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Bad cause it’s cheap, cheap and bad. Saturday Night Special they call it, Trash Gun. The slide. The bullet can get caught between the nowand the split second later, between the Here and the Hereafter. Hard. A thick, flat, gun-shaped weight that gets harder in your […]

SUZANNE LUMMIS ________________________________       Jump     So what’s it like   to jump from the Golden Gate Bridge   he asked—my brother asked—into   the face blown wavy as spit salt   and foam rinsed sand.   Hardly anyone lives he tells me,   my brother the […]

CONNEY D. WILLIAMS _________________________________ you are los angeles complicated as construction on both the 405 and 5 freeways necessary and tangled you script yourself anew, daily peach stucco, beach, and celluloid breathing like skyscraperabove the colloquial & CO2 red rock mesa rising pacific you basin beauty with the subtle calico […]

CONNEY D. WILLIAMS _________________________________     you are los angeles     complicated as construction on both the 405 and 5 freeways necessary and tangled you script yourself anew, daily peach stucco, beach, and celluloid breathing like skyscraperabove the colloquial & CO2 red rock mesa rising pacific you basin beauty […]

RON KOERTGE _________________________________   “Jagged Blade Found in Cake        Destined for Inmate”     But a wily guard probes. Carries everything   to Warden Hardin                                           who closes the door   so they can take turns licking icing   off the blade, imagining that inmate’s wife:   recipe on the […]