The Change Machine Steven Ray Smith That night they made up beer ballads, made cocksure passes at women they’d always ignored, ignored the law about the bar closing at four and met the bus stop, both madcap and restored. The … Continue reading
Kick Line Steven Ray Smith There is a boy in the kick line. Look! Among thirty girls, a boy kicking! The stands wonder what licked him so hard as to scare his deuce into the kick line. A boy’s legs … Continue reading
Christopher Woods is a writer, teacher and photographer who lives in Houston and Chappell Hill, Texas. His published works include a prose collection, UNDER A RIVERBED SKY, and a book of stage monologues for actors, HEART SPEAK. His photographs have … Continue reading
Birds of Prey Claude McKay Their shadow dims the sunshine of our day, As they go lumbering across the sky, Squawking in joy of feeling safe on high, Beating their heavy wings of owlish gray. They scare the singing birds … Continue reading
Lead type Robert McKay “An expired subscription to silence…” – Major Jackson Like teeth. Like teeth that gnaw through the tasteless fibre of silence. Like the teeth of a ruminant, whose stomachs (As many as there are points on the … Continue reading