miCRo: “Aspen” by Michael O’Ryan
Michael O’Ryan’s cinematographic poem is imbued with a sibyllic mood.
miCRo: “Litany of Kill” by Letitia Jiju
Bless the fangblenny masquerading / as something of a lesser bite
miCRo: “Before the Wedding” by Cassandra Whitaker
Cassandra Whitaker’s epithalamium is a breathless wreath of anticipation, retrospection and contemplation.
miCRo: “Melody” by Jason R. Chun
And I was ready for it, the salt-laced soap stinging red at the corners of my vision, waterfall over my eyeballs, and Mel’s messages front and center, lurid but legible. I was ready to delete.
miCRo: “Perigee” by Steven Pan
To keep score / hunger adds to itself, asymptotic to a whole.
miCRo: “Revision” by B. Do
In B. Do’s moving piece, revision is not merely a means to an end; rather, there is a truth in and an ethical weight to the act of revision itself.
miCRo: “Lake Effect” by Mark Budman
He prefers happier stories: “The girl and the boy loved each other. They got married. The end.” But the happy stories don’t last long.
miCRo: “Archival Landfill” by Michael Credico
He seems to come and go just for the coming and going of it, as if he were a cowboy. We didn’t raise a cowboy.
miCRo: “Fight” by Babak Lakghomi
Babak Lakghomi’s “Fight” considers the reverberations of violence across space and time.
miCRo: “Summit” by Deb Werrlein
I say no age is too old for living.
miCRo: “The Man Under the Blanket” by Lisa Thornton
A story that examines the nature of belonging to a family, with an undercurrent of imagined violence.
miCRo: A poem by Alex Wells Shapiro
In Alex Wells Shapiro’s “a buck,” the voice confronts death, specifically the material reality and circumstances of death.
