When I rolled up to the light on 96th and the River, the old man waited, rag in hand, and bent hard over the windshield. Did my father ever treat my ass with the care this stranger bestows? He blows a kiss on it and strokes it with the corner of his shirt. I lean on the horn and holler: I have places to go–with reservations, in fancy restaurants, with […]
Tag Archives | Modern soulcraft
Laura Grace Weldon | Everywhere stars
The weary face behind her in the bathroom mirror startled Lia. Her mother usually slept in after a late shift at the bowling alley. “Don’t go getting any big ideas,” her mother’s reflection said. “Uh huh,” Lia answered. Lia’s morning routine, bathroom to hallway to kitchen, was slowed by her bathrobed mother who exhaled loudly in irritation at each contact. Finally her mother lit the first cigarette of the day, […]
Janet Reed | Everyday soul
Hit from Behind For Robin I do not know the torque required to break a human bone or the geometry of angles a body absorbs before it bends if force that snaps a back or severs a spine is an equation or probability. When I whined about my clutter, laundry overflowing its baskets the spillage of my wasteful self spoiling in crispers and cabinets, I was not thinking of collision, […]
Megan Merchant | I will explain
The black cat she named after a stiff Russian drink, and slept on my childhood bed, crawls out from under some orbit, neither of us can remember the exact shade of red lipstick she was always wiping clean. * If given the gift of another question I would choose one that could unpack like nesting dolls. * I would ask again about my birth story, how I almost arrived in […]
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