Shipworms were chewing the wood supporting the pier containing Frank Sinatra Park. Small beer, you might say; no beer, I might answer. Soon the pier would be soluble, the…

  i attention split pretending to listen you follow the scent of your fear     replying as though your mind were not divided for now no one can realize you’re terrified…

  Lost savings, empty storefronts— a window of time but not of opportunity. Somewhere in the future, jobs wait for their workers, directionless and tentatively loyal. We are trying to…

  I don’t remember when the last survivor +of the Ludlow Massacre died. A story online disappeared, and I don’t remember when. I don’t remember the type of shoe +unscripted…

  They both move along the path as car headlights on a dark road. She has a face that looks like the first sun on seeing its light reflect off…

  —after Andrea Read A woman holds a white chicken in the back seat of her car and the wind gusts, throwing the poplars back as if they’ve suffered a…

  ‘what life I got left, I clawed together’ a world where polar ice melt means more plunder ice inside St. Louis windows children freezing to death in al-Hol in…

  —for Karim Ennarah Amid November’s raid, the journalists at the office learned to make paper boats to pass the time. Suddenly there were as many boats as people, except…

  voices clashing lines to an election drafted on the canvas. Mornings here afar covering American night news are cold as Aschbach Walzweiher long, wavering lake’s strands of mist hiding…

  Call it that, this hatch or migration around the campfire pit, so that they ascend our own long legs, and we catch a glimpse of them or their shadows…

  Forty minutes south of here the foliage changes, and forty minutes more there are armadillos, which are adorable and carry leprosy. At the rest area the thick nylon divider…