Sing in me a dithyramb to salt,
epics of cardamom and sage.
Cypress trees, grow taller please.
Snails, commence your racing.
Let us stoke delicious bonfires
and jig unbridled every night
on the opium sands of ...
Invocation by Christopher Bakken
LAR Online, Poetry
for her sister, a surgeon during this pandemic
I once asked you what it was like to watch people die. We were on our way to drink flights of wine. You described a man’s head filling with fluid until it was the ...
You Work with Death by Maria T. Allocco
LAR Online, Nonfiction
review of books by Megan Cummins and Annie Ernaux
If the Body Allows It
Megan Cummins
University of Nebraska Press, September 2020
$21.95; 270pp.
ISBN: 9781496222831
Happening
Annie ...
Re-Narrating the Lives of Women by Jenessa Abrams
Book Reviews, LAR Online
They arrived the summer after Celine’s divorce, when the Asian pear bore ruddy fruit that she hadn’t the vigor to pick. A pair of ravens swooped in to glean the rotting pears beneath the tree. They built a nest in the ...
S.O.S. by Teresa H. Janssen
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Modesty not when the mood strikes,
.................................................when the mood is struck.
I change on a cellular basis in ignorant repetition—the infinite
scroll of a body switched on— ...
Palinody by Caroline Crew
LAR Online, Poetry
SHOE-MERANG, LIFT
The toilet paper has arrived, or maybe it’s the turnips. But the dog has kicked his shoes all over the foyer. I’ve asked him not to, but he’ll listen only to Linda.
And you think she’ll ...
Plague Diary II by Steve Chang
Fiction, LAR Online
translated by Rachael Daum
N., the famous explorer of the expanses of the northern seas, briefed the public shortly after the unfortunate sinking of the Titanic in the year 1912 on his particular knowledge regarding ...
Lusitania: Prologue by Dejan Atanacković
LAR Online, Translations
—For Feiga Maler, 1919-1942, who died in the Kraków Ghetto
When she was fenced off even from herself, she had that strangled feeling
as if the alphabet forgot her lips.
How did she mend thoughts that snapped like ...
[When she was fenced off even from herself] by Yerra Sugarman
LAR Online, Poetry
In the latest Trump blunder, he says we should all be back in church by Easter, which comes early this year, April 12. This makes me remember an Easter a few years ago, my six grandnephews in straw hats and shirts with ...
One Day in the Pandemic: March 25, 2020 by Denise Duhamel & Julie Marie Wade
LAR Online, Nonfiction
