Greek amphorae sprouting branches in the toboroches / and Dante’s whole paradise embodied in a dragon fruit (poetry)
“John McNally’s new story collection has reenergized me as a reader and a writer,” writes reviewer Glenn Deutsch, “and I fully expect it will exert those powers on you.”
(review)
Every day: a penguin story.
(nonfiction)
Before the virus, we would kiss in our kitchen after the kids left for school.
(nonfiction)
You were a good liar because you lied to yourself.
(nonfiction)
I answered phone calls from my mother every two hours, so she could “check your voice for corona.”
(nonfiction)
Cut right in the middle
(poetry)
Cholera was raging in the middle of August.
(nonfiction)
I wanted to be in the mountains when it happened.
(nonfiction)
America ignored dogs
splinters floods tears / the people who’ve had citizenship for / over a hundred years.
(poetry)
“‘Desire and Dust’ is an incredible collection of work,” writes reviewer Mike Corrao, “seamlessly blending distinct mediums into one cohesive tome.”
(review)
Every day they would wash all surfaces with carbolic soap.
(nonfiction)
A month will become a year.
(nonfiction)
If I come across someone I make sure I am the first to ask about the screams.
(nonfiction)
We hold our breath, if the road’s too narrow.
(nonfiction)
We take an image of your chest each day.
(nonfiction)
With ISIS defeated and the conflict in Syria dwindling, this should have been a bustling season.
(nonfiction)
When she tires of reading, she comes over to burp in my ear.
(nonfiction)
“I wonder where we go when we die,” Calvin once said to Hobbes.
(nonfiction)
So if Henry is neither in the woods, nor alone, what exactly, is he doing?
(The Loop)
The earthquake woke us on the sixth day of the pandemic.
(nonfiction)
dark people mark a place as dangerous or destitute, the word / jawn marks a place people gloss over on their way to DC
(poetry)
“The nationalist is mired,” writes reviewer David Kirby. “But the patriot is in motion, which may explain why Marcus’s prose tears along at a breakneck pace and then collapses in exhaustion.”
(review)
Give me your germs
(nonfiction)
Ritter and her companions rely on seals they shoot for survival.
(nonfiction)
They’re always baking, said The Stand Mixer.
(nonfiction)
Rural populations tend to have higher rates per capita of the elderly, disabled, and people with other health problems.
(nonfiction)
A sedative floods her veins
(nonfiction)
You know the one we mean.
(nonfiction)
Keep it secret, keep it safe:
(poetry)
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