Category: Features

by Karen George Georgia O’Keeffe’s Blue No. I, watercolor, 1916 Misshapen skulls float, wrinkly lobesof cortex, cerebellum cased within. Blue, pale to black–brain moods. A hundred-billioncreamy neurons flow. Two parallel structures jut–a ladder thrust diagonal, no rungs. My mother’s brainmisfires. A network of endlesspaths. No wonderwe sometimes get lost. Karen George, author of Swim Your […]

by Jenny Molberg Bitch Monitoring Your Phone I am a citizen detective. I am a sleuth.Now that I know where you are, I do not care. What shall I call my wave-colored moon?How will I occupy it? Where will I erect my flag? The blue tracker dot waits in the red traffic.Don’t come near me, […]

by Jenny Molberg You’re Just Like Everyone Else He’ll say anything He’ll make a steamboat of his mouthand out comes a sick green river You’re the only one You’re water and oar You’re windand undertow We’ll fuck until we fly You know what he’ll do You’re just like everyone elseHe only says this to you […]

by Jenny Molberg Evidence: She Said I wearchartreuse. Under-eye bags. People whisper.I heard she made it up. See me,then don’t. Jenny Molberg is the author of three poetry collections: Marvels of the Invisible (Tupelo Press, 2017), Refusal (LSU Press, 2020), and The Court of No Record (forthcoming from LSU Press, 2023). An NEA fellow, her […]

by Jenny Molberg Evidence: She Said The cops?When he chased medown an alley, they stoodblue, unmoved. He can spin a badge.Turn them. Jenny Molberg is the author of three poetry collections: Marvels of the Invisible (Tupelo Press, 2017), Refusal (LSU Press, 2020), and The Court of No Record (forthcoming from LSU Press, 2023). An NEA […]

by Jenny Molberg Redirect Examination by The Alpha’s Attorney The MeToo poem was shocking, was it not? This was her dogged power of persuasion and not your actions, correct? The accused has written a poem about your treatment of her, has she not? And the poem, though it does not name you, leads people to […]

by Jenny Molberg Evidence: He Said The beach.A dusk becameme. Next thing, a star fell.Her limbs and head its five points. Smallblack hole. Jenny Molberg is the author of three poetry collections: Marvels of the Invisible (Tupelo Press, 2017), Refusal (LSU Press, 2020), and The Court of No Record (forthcoming from LSU Press, 2023). An […]

by Jenny Molberg Statement of The Alpha’s Attorney I say unto thee, these women belong to a cult against men. For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.[1] My client dreams of the respondents. They spew the blood spatter of men. They awaken my client. They unsettle my […]

by Jenny Molberg The Alpha’s Attorney: Opening Statement Briefly, your Honor. Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.[1] This is what the LORD says: In the place where […]

by Jenny Molberg Bridge Ann Bryan, 1911–1994. Murdered, St. James Place Retirement Community, Baton Rouge. The women take their places at the bridge table,this day without Ann. North, West, East. I study Ann’s black hair, a curled wreath, in the bookabout her killer. Her large glasses exalt the kind of eyes that speak. What right […]

by Jenny Molberg Shooting at Oakbrook Apartments My neighbor held a gun to his chestand with the other hand, his son, captive for being his son. The bulletpunctured the man, the window, then the air above my head as I peered over the fence.A bullet to the chest can miss the heart. Square in their […]