... hotel made perfectly for us and nothing's colder than a beer on the river nothing's colder than the river once the sun goes out or will it pop like a cherry like a turtle under a tire like Christ Almighty so pissed at all us kids is it too late to say we're sorry so sorry promise with big scared...

...Benjamin Sutton © 2011 Benjamin Sutton 2011 Benjamin Sutton From Conversational, Ohio (1) The youngest asks, respectfully, if there’s a Hallmark card for mixed emotions —​ or in what aisle he’ll find a category for          sorry about asking Grandpa          how many men he...

...Mark Jacob © 2007 the minnesota review 2007 Mark Jacob Sniff It must be a burden to have a last name that’s a common noun, like Bob Love or Nelson Riddle or Cubby Broccoli. But it must be even worse to be born a verb. Which was why I felt sorry for Tom Sniff. “I think his name...

... of her. She passed away in a home last year, right before Carolyn moved back.” “Jesus.” “Jessie.” “Sorry. It's just so awful.” “Yes,” my mother said. “But we can't know why things happen the way they do. Here, talk to your father.” My mother has never lingered long with tragedy, her...

...D. Gilson © 2020 D. Gilson 2020 D. Gilson Revision On Sunday my brother killed himself ordered a pizza with a shotgun in his mouth Canadian bacon & extra cheese. This was after he called Mother, to say he was so sorry but he could not sustain this living hungry & could not wait to eat...

...Stine An Stine An Root Ah, do I like okay ammo, love, the untruth, magic harmonies, phosphorescence, ancestor kids & arti cial getting along with mourning orals? Ugh, do I dislike, hate & think odious rooms that sour sorry, threadbare tongues, shing to lose, cricket gospels & every single...

.... Michelle was crying. I hurried over to comfort her and she pushed me away. I m sorry, I said. I didn t mean to scare you. What are you, some sort of psychopath? I assumed that was a rhetorical question. I m really sorry, I said again. It was just a joke. Throw that fucking thing away. * * * I...

... sorry and I mistake it for branding nothing is safe when I wear myself like fog you touch me keep touching me and everything becomes our emblem minnesota review 95 (2020) DOI 10.1215/00265667-8623434 © 2020 Halley Furlong-Mitchell 4 © 2020 Halley Furlong-Mitchell 2020 ...

... turned rapidly my lungs gong against the cavity hold my shoulders try to rebalance me i m sorry my head keeps lolling side to side know that i am trying my hardest to lift it to see you minnesota review 96 (2021) DOI 10.1215/00265667-8851114 © 2021 Hannah Bishop 11 ...

.... This was a different Karen. She was cool and distant. She reminded me of myself. “I think I’m allergic.” I excused myself and went to call Claire. Her phone rang until the machine picked up. “Hey, it’s me,” I said. “Look, I don’t know what happened earlier, but I’m sorry. I...

... is a fish that has already died,father declared. The kids were silent, history etched in their skulls. They once flopped like fish on a hot wet dock. You’ll grow up to be like me, father said. And I’m sorry for that. minnesota review 83 (2014) DOI 10.1215/00265667-2781584  © 2014 Marty Cain...

.../00265667-1708376  © 2012 Margot Schilpp 19 20 the minnesota review * Be sorry once in a while, even when the jet’s contrails fall to vapor and quit opposing what has been * and then what is. No one...

... sorry I cut the thumbs off all your gloves but there was a point where I began to rummage through my life as if through the dark of a stranger s garage like a small planet the car sat empty the memory minor the mirror fogged I m trying to give you an example: to set something aflame is to push it from...

.... “Sorry, sorry,” she says. “Of course you miss her.” 14 the minnesota review “Of course? How could you say of course?” “Because she was your mother, and you loved her,” she says. “Despite everything.” The microwave beeps again. I take the burrito out and cut a piece off, pushing...

...Emma Bolden © 2017 Emma Bolden 2017 Emma Bolden After Twenty Years of Trying I Decided to Be I sorried. I slept & sheeped. I was under the line of an aimed gun. I became ages ago. I slept & sorrowed, our lady, a flower petaled over the edge of the bicycle lane. I had nowhere...

...Natasha Sajé © 2021 Natasha Sajé 2021 Natasha Sajé apostrophe I. I m a tad sorry for you floating mark often forgotten or in the wrong place trivial as lint a currant in a muffin sweet in the way that being correct is sweet II. for years I circled its on student papers explaining that its...

..., aerosol sight of skies, coupon books of what was ours. on Saturday and Sunday morning commercials showing jovial kids eating mac n cheese with orange sauce and Zucaritas to cut off a foot or leg later maybe even (sorry, folks!) an eye or two. Abuela s meals shooed into the other room. at the invitation...

... on the porch. you frown, but that s not a story. and i m sorry it wasn t. you ask about the leaves, were they chamomile or cardamom and how many fingers each? you know i m tired, but okay. in this version i can bear your body and breathe south where the tea is lipton-cheap and getting warm where instead...

...Alan Michael Parker © 2014 Alan Michael Parker 2014 Alan Michael Parker Twenty-One Titles for a Revenge Poem I kicked his sorry ass out eight years ago.  —Tim​ 1. Self-Portrait as an Empty Chair. 2...

.... or no, we open on a mouth saying i don’t love you anymore. or no, we open on a mouth that opens saying sorry i put you at risk. it’s a think piece. it’s a needle and thread. it’s a classic romance. we open, the camera pulls back to reveal a field of men waiting on line for the movie that might...