ISSUES | summer 2014

The guy behind the wheel was really drunk, and getting drunker by the minute, which was probably the only reason he’d stopped to give me a ride in the first…    read more

On the first morning her husband was away at a conference Upstate, Louise Lampert sat up in bed, strangely awake and aware. On summer mornings like this one, she generally…    read more

A bald eagle has claimed the same low-hanging branch fifteen feet from the cabin for three consecutive mornings. I’ve begun to think of it as my totem animal, though generally I…    read more

It is the afternoon before Thanksgiving when my mom asks me to take my brother to the college. Corlyss’s usual aide, a large thick-accented woman who sits through class with…    read more

The sex with Rob was candlelit and amiable, but for Yvette the coupling fell flat. She did not blame Rob. He perused her body earnestly, made love to her earlobes…    read more

My mother knows the earth’s surface is composed of tectonic plates, and that these plates move hundreds of miles with ease. They arrange and rearrange themselves, very quickly sometimes, creating…    read more

In his book Escape from Freedom, Erich Fromm points out that autonomy can be hollow when it is without a meaningful goal. Even when one does exercise free choice with…    read more

“Still-Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl (after Rembrandt)”
“Still Life after Antonio de Pereda’s The Knight’s Dream”
“Still Life after Juan Sánchez Cotán’s Quince, Cabbage, Melon and Cucumber”
“Still Life after Pieter Claesz’s Vanitas with Violin and Glass Ball”
“The Last Still Life, after Peter Paul Rubens’ The Head of Medusa”

“The Collected Poems of Said Gun”
“Said Gun’s Chores”
“Said Gun Considers His Landscape”
“Said Gun Considers the Shrike”
“Said Gun on His Deathbed”

“How I Was a Jig”
“Blue Baby: The Professor Tells His Scar”
“The Professor Lists Her Begats”
“The Ballyhoo”
“The Leopard Lady Tells Her Spots”
“I Could Take as Omens”