Fourteen Mistakes ‘You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes’ Razumikhin, drunk in Crime and Punishment How we learned to create a thunderclap in a lab with dust and mirrors How we designed a clap to blast away every echo How we moved to new cities and wrote our addresses in loose font on … Continue reading Two poems by Alice Miller
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Three poems by Jodie Hollander
The Metronome She set the metronome ticking, her children the pendulum, rocking back and forth from Mother to Father, Father back to Mother. Then she’d twist the knob to Father-Mother, Mother-Father, or call out Allegro!, and they’d speed up: FatherMother, MotherFather, FatherMother. Her children walked sideways, their eyes shifted horizontally, they looked dizzy, even possessed—missing … Continue reading Three poems by Jodie Hollander
‘Tuning Fork’ by Ruby Robinson
Tuning Fork Lifting the lid, you’d tell me: once the fork is struck, the initial blade of overtones quieten to one note composed of vibrations undetectable by the human eye, almost silent to the ear. I always loved the bit about the shattered tooth, the thrill when you lifted the steel close to my cheek … Continue reading ‘Tuning Fork’ by Ruby Robinson
Two poems by Mona Arshi
The Daughters My daughters have lost two hundred and thirty-six teeth and counting. They possess so many skills: they can craft sophisticated weaponry such as blow-pipes, lances and slings and know what the sharp end of a peacock’s feather is for. Last month they constructed a canoe and saved the Purdu Mephistopheles from extinction. They … Continue reading Two poems by Mona Arshi
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