miCRo: “Ghost words” by Vimla Sriram
Spirits are hardly passive in Vimla Sriram’s memory-driven “Ghost words.”
miCRo: “Probability Statistics” by Dawn Miller
…in this waiting room purgatory, we begin to see how things are always more connected than we think.
miCRo: “Tea and Seeds” by Yasmine Yu
In her first publication, Yasmine Yu shows us the physical yearning for one’s own lost cultural inheritance.
miCRo: “Had Penelope a kiln, she would outcast” by Purvi Shah
Purvi Shah transforms myth into a needle-sharp meditation on bodiless, action, history, and more.
miCRo: “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” by Matthew Tuckner
Tuckner explores the passage of time, and its painful collisions, in a couple’s deceptively ordinary afternoon.
miCRo: “Hit the Tree” by Denise Bergman
Bergman’s writing is breathless, a strategic babbling attempt to catalog all of the details of a car accident.
miCRo: “Okay” by Scott Garson
Identities shift, and first impressions rule in Scott Garson’s “Okay.”
miCRo: “After The Seine at Beaugival” by Vincent Frontero
In ten lines of simple, declarative verse, Vincent Frontero offers a dizzying meditation on transience, fragility, appearances, and resolve.
miCRo: “Why I’m Caching a Gallon of Water near the Chimney Top Outlook of North Fork Mountain” by Bill King
King helps us ride the wave of grief to the shore, where it breaks over us, then retreats before it comes again.
miCRo: “Inversion can feel like weightlessness” by Anita Goveas
How do you navigate loss, upside down and a hundred feet in the air?
miCRo: “Apricots” by Yunkyo Moon-Kim
In “Apricots,” the speaker’s beloved pollinates apricot trees by hand, showing us what is, and what is not, subject to the passage of time.
miCRo: “Inventory of Your Things as I Empty Your House” by Anita Wright Collins
This piece moves seamlessly between fact and feeling, illustrating how objects are often the most powerful doorways into memories.
