Texas-Louisiana Border Dive Bar This place is a metaphor for my dysthymia. If everything beautiful is born of wreck, then take me to the salvage yard of my affect. I sit at our booth, waiting for no one. The mortician sits down next to me and explains what happened to the stars: they were shook […]
Guest Editor Tomás Q. Morín: A Special Feature
“When West Branch invited me to be a guest editor, I told Josh I wanted the story if it was still free. This time, to my absolute delight, it was.”
Jeanne Larsen
Shadows Rippling on Bodhisattva Run 2 hundred thousand souls all still in a rush downstream from Hiroshima. Over the gorge, 5 bats wheel like the ones carved in a temple beam below the hill of graves in Nagasaki. Ceci n’est pas une ghazal Charcoal ovens in grave-rows: a rainforest’s smoldering heart aerially viewed. Just fashionable […]
Julie Marie Wade
Largest mammal on Earth … Surely the man at the circus must have mentioned it as he lifted us into the howdah one by one. I was front rider in that row of kids, wriggling four- & five-year-olds in jean shorts & jelly shoes. I was tallest, too, the largest mammal in preschool, though this […]
Megan Neville
Elegy with Apologies to Leon Jakobovits James Six feet away a girl asks do I know a term for saying a word until it loses ground, becomes a different thing a bubble on the tongue & I am sorry to tell her no there is no word in English but in fact there is & […]
Protactile Poetry
One of the outcomes I expect from the enterprise of translating American Sign Language poetry into English is that it would disappoint many readers.
Christopher Citro
If Alone Has a Flavor Some sort of tinned fish. Check. Udon noodles ready in five minutes. Check. The peanut oil. Yes. Sesame seeds shaken like snow. Oh, yes. And sea salt from a small caddy in flakes, sun packed inside like energy in atoms. It won’t end. What won’t end? This life we feel’s […]
A. Prevett
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Christian Schlegel
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Aholaah Arzah
Aholaah Arzah’s essay “Ring Cycle” received Longshot Magazine‘s feature award. She lives in Port Townsend, Washington.
