Still Life

I lie and say this scar’s a gift from my cat. Three inches long, hypertrophic,…

An Introduction to the Monster (Novel Excerpt)

Thank you for that New Year’s Day. That day the monster was on my back.…

Ain’t That Good News

  Florence Holmes kept her knife in Psalm 94.  An eight-inch stiletto with a pearl…

On Eschatological Radio Angels Flying in the Troposphere

Millennial engineers of faltering air, not eschatological radio angels tighten struts, bolts, and cantilevers of…

Three Poems

  I never met Bill Cosby but I met Beverly Johnson at Magic Mountain with…

Two Poems

  Oops!   Careful we have to be : Opening the door , Getting our…

What We Love – A conversation between Angie Cruz, Madhu H. Kaza and M.L. Vargas

Madhu H. Kaza: When I think of the idea behind “What We Love” I think…

Memorial Daze (It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry)

“Each time we remember something specific . . . that memory grows stronger. Like a…

A woman cries on the A

You want to hold her. You want her to disappear. This is how you feel…