Paul Luikart

The Nature of Things The Rainstorm, The Wind, The Volcano, She howled. And the salt rivers flowed away from their blue-green beginnings slowly, ever so slowly, hesitating, and gradually, glistening, gainingwithconfidence carved a crooked channel and dripped dripped dripped onto a stark concrete mouth. And the howling wind whipped a straggly cat o’ ninetails her […]

Janet I. Buck

Artichokes All the years of pressure cookers rocking on the stove. My belly full of finding ways to dance around your piercing eyes that rested like a robin’s eggs on fences leaning in the dawn. Moments split like stale nuts your daughters always gathered up and tried so very hard to save. The cookie dough […]