The Literary Magazine of the Osterhout Free Library
Of Lifeless Equivalencies
Sarah Bigham
The first was made
without sugar,
an error of haste or
stress or
care.
Instead, a slab entombed in thinly
ridged metal,
anemic cardboard, and
impenetrable plastic:
embalmed
for a celebration not
my own.
I do not want Continue reading “Sarah Bigham, Spring•Summer 2017”
A Shorting
Micah James Bauman
I have a shorting
in my heart
not a longing as some say
I have been living
a tiny thin truth
and by no shrink
of the imagination
can I explain it Continue reading “Micah Bauman, Spring•Summer 2017”
Gustav Vigeland’s Sculpture Garden, 1965
David Chin
Vigeland’s subject was the nude, what we are
without the trappings without the social uniform.
Atop the garden’s 56-foot-tall central monolith,
composed entirely of bodies, pressing and pushing, Continue reading “David Chin, Spring•Summer 2017”
Long Nights with B
Brian Fanelli
B liked to raise his fists,
sneer at me with booze breath,
College boy, what you got on me, huh?
B liked to call next morning,
not to apologize, but to plan the night,
promise to buy first rounds.
B liked to forget how he tangled with friends, Continue reading “Brian Fanelli, Spring•Summer 2017”
Silver Skin
Libby Copa
They press upward against the currents
to make small eddies with slow movements
(a quiet disturbance on the water) Continue reading “Libby Copa, Spring•Summer 2017”
