On Walking Alone at Night
By Essay Issue 115
After watching him for a few measures’ time, I walk on. I have no interest in spying. I only look at the things that I am allowed to see from the sidewalk.
Read MoreQuail
By Poetry Issue 115
so efficiently do quail become creators
of quail like God filling the
desert floor with quail for his
children
Read MoreThe Master
By Fiction Issue 115
Relationships, she believed, were built not on loyalty but a system of material and emotional labor, wherein you paid a percentage of your valuable time and energy to receive a percentage of someone else’s valuable time and energy in return. She was suspicious of anyone who claimed purer motives.
Read MoreExplosives, Once Signaled
By Poetry Issue 115
Everything inside a mountain
has the right to be forgotten, but I have
the right to know, to access, make the coal seam
public.
Read MoreCherub Paul Desmond
By Poetry Issue 115
Paul Desmond was a famous jazz musician.
He could play altissimo, the highest register.
His tone was light as a soul leaving the body.
Godwrestling
By Poetry Issue 115
All Her Beautiful Children
By Fiction Issue 115
In the garden, love is dirt and rain: through every wet blossoming Joanna hears children singing—
Read MoreSomething Other than Devotion: Bored with the Renaissance, Surprised by the Contemporary
By Editorial Issue 115
Unlike a pilgrimage to the Uffizi, Paolini’s installations ask for something other than devotion; his work occasioned in me a kind of wondering that was something other than awe. It invites conversation rather than adulation. The artist is relinquishing control rather than demanding attention.
Read MoreVacation
By Poetry Issue 114
My wife
Is reading D.H. Lawrence and says she wants to get a tattoo. She says that I’m not “deep,”
And maybe she’s right.
Presences
By Poetry Issue 114
There’s always
the possibility of never coming back


