...Aricka Foreman © 2011 Aricka Foreman 2011 Aricka Foreman lesson on dream interpretation the best way to fend off a serial killer is to jab them right in the kidney over and over, or perhaps throw them over the banister of a house you share with at least eight strangers just like...

...Jessica Rae Bergamino © 2014 Jessica Rae Bergamino 2014 Jessica Rae Bergamino Sex Dream with People Watching Here is the net. Here is the knife you’ll use to cut yourself from it. Here is the temptation to stay. Here: a shell the color of your modesty: a fan to...

...B. T. Shaw © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 B. T. Shaw The night you bury your father you hope he will visit your dreams, but apparently there’s a final exam in biology. When did you sign up for biology? Fluorescent bulbs flicker, lockers shimmer like...

... exchange? These studies trace this anxiety through the mid-century decades in which the dream of the Old Left met the fantasy of the new class. Old Left, New Class: Literary Anxiety in the Consumers’ Republic . (on Schryer Stephen ., Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in...

... beans / and the weight of waiting customers and piled-up days / though the odd plank / free of distress / seems only gently / beautifully aged until one day the floor’s dream kicks in / or so i dream / the dream of rolling back up and retiring to the woods / its strips restoring to rings...

...Tara Skurtu © 2013 Tara Skurtu 2013 Tara Skurtu Morning Love Poem Dreamt last night I fed you, unknowingly, something you were allergic to. And you were gone, like that. You don’t have even a single allergy, but still. The dream cracked. Cars nosedived...

...Nadia Born © 2020 Nadia Born 2020 Nadia Born To the Coast My daughter Penny woke up in the middle of the night, complaining that she was having other people s dreams. How do you know? I asked her silhouette in the doorway. She came through the dark to the bed- side, slipped against the heat...

...Alex Chertok © 2017 Alex Chertok 2017 Alex Chertok Priapus Waking Up Hard So his parents won’t catch him pitching tent, young Priapus tiptoes past their bedroom to take his first piss, bent over the bowl, nursing the swelling from his dream’s black widow...

... too much to let the nothing in your mind trace its black way to the heart, if you’re like me who’s both, no matter how often I’m startled from dream and wish I could be someone else not midwestern, not capable of falling in love with gray Februarys or afraid of falling...

... like the flyer; they had followed a whole trail of discarded things north to a location stripped bare of its tree trunks, where men threw wrenches out of open windows until all of the cops were gone. Now we all have dreams that we’re at a party in Billy Durant’s driveway when someone starts...

...Tyler Kline Tyler Kline in this town i’m sleeping under every green light for the dream of your ponytail / your lipstick teeth falling on asphalt like rain from the bed of a pickup / in this town / too many weathervanes point south / strange miracles happen after the butcher hangs his...

... of him. I paid him back one night while he was sleeping by creeping into his dark room clutching a long throwing knife and trying to look like a crazed killer. I hovered over his dreaming growing body until he woke screaming. I laughed so hard...

...Allison Donohue © 2016 Allison Donohue 2016 Allison Donohue Shipwrecked Waveless water, I don’t deny this canoe is hesitant for two     yet I shall dream of what I do not need; a dog moaning in the anteroom unaware she isn’t alone, I’ll...

...Michael Hager 41 Michael Hager The Wings Of Our Fathers I dream of the men who walk these passages —veins are hallways in the back of hands. Their steps scuff the entry like...

...Laurie Sewall Laurie Sewall Stones Skipping Water Cloth of her body, bones her bones, I saw my mother re- enter this earth, appear in her actual torso, real batik sneakers, white socks: a prayer with no question, dream before sleep, palate and sound before time. A...

...Thomas Hawks © 2013 Thomas Hawks 2013 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Thomas Hawks Oysters for Breakfast Spent fuel rods dream in their baths While Sir Laurence Olivier laughs because Tony Curtis...

.... Sold his sister a garden-size plot, kept himself a tract and a trailer. This is the way we live now. Short rides we manage day to day. Dreams wide as the town limit. The sky still hangs big as ever We just don’t watch it so much. ...

.... Sleeping in a hospital, breathing, a chore made easier by a daughter who props his pillows & turns up the fan, who rubs his sore legs with bag-balm, he says Why don't you fix your ugly hair? At home, she dreams about fllterless cigarettes, Noah's flood...

..., this singing, this dying, this dreaming meat. minnesota review 82 (2014) DOI 10.1215/00265667-2409910  © 2014 Jay Udall 23 ...

... shrunken witch of my dreams: Here I am, why not come and get me? And stood with my back to the alley.  —​There are tiny beetles crawling all over these walls. My husband shrugs: So? Call the men with the poisons. I pick up the phone, I press all the right buttons. I am...