By Allison Swenson
I remember first hearing rumors
of the atom. We are all made up
of crumbs, Q told me
when we were kids.…
of the atom. We are all made up
of crumbs, Q told me
when we were kids.…
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- By Alice OswaldIt's a rush, a sploosh of sewage, twenty thousand cubic metres being pumped in, stirred and settled …
- By Karen HouleOne man and one woman park the government Jeep
on the gravel shoulder of the Grand River watershed.
Paired… - By Cyrus Console
Rotor wash, or the downward-flowing
Air by which our helicopters formed
Imprints in the jungle grass… - By S.J. Fowler & Rebecca KamenSIR, the 28 spheres of Kamen’s harmony
Susceptible, inferred, immense, actual - the electron microscopy… - By Diane ThielWe've always been out looking for answers,
telling stories about ourselves,
searching for connection… - By Norman FinkelsteinI have built a machine to visit the stars.
I have built a machine to outlast the stars.
There is a glass… - By Ava CipriHere is the encyclopedia where I learn first position
Here is where I begin ballet: at 12, in a class… - By Leslie Contreras SchwartzA body must remind itself
to keep living, continually,
throughout the day.
Even at night while sleeping… - By DJ Savarese1. Who needs water with so many wings?
2. A Dewey Decimal System for feathers.
3. The librarian in the… - By Katie WillinghamLately, I've enlisted an app on my phone to keep track
of the time that I can't witness—it maps the … - By Katie WillinghamDiagram of a diagram: if properly decoded,
the first image which will appear
is a circle. Or, go backwards… - By Katie WillinghamWe know the last stuffed specimen of the dodo burned
in 1755, though Wikipedia's "Dodo: Talk" page shows… - By Moon Bo YoungThe research center is a cube building with a neat chimney plunged into the right side. The researchers…
- By Marlanda DekineVigilant for so long,I am full. There are centuries
of terror crawling just beneath my skin.
… - By Felicia ZamoraAn ulcer develops inside my lower lip in crevasse of gumline, the translucent milky gray pocks oral …
- By Charlotte PenceWhat is death to us? We've heard that myth,
a ghost story to tell around a camp fire.
We're too busy… - By Mũkoma Wa NgũgĩIt’s strange artwork, perhaps voodoo,
a human skull strung in perfect symmetry
to a tree in Mount Kenya… - By Linda BierdsHow, Alan Turing thought, does the soft-walled,
jellied, symmetrical cell
become the asymmetrical horse… - By Christopher PhelpsI didn’t know the details.
I feared the details.
I loved the details.
The details, said etymology,
…