Funky Fresh,
2016
Bryant University
Funky Fresh, Ryan Girard
Bryant Literary Review
Warm lights flash
Scuffs of roller skates litter the dance floor
You Could Die Laughing (For Sarah Purnell And Especially For Anne),
2016
Bryant University
You Could Die Laughing (For Sarah Purnell And Especially For Anne), Don Fisher
Bryant Literary Review
I told a co-worker about a mutual friend dying.
She thumbed away one tear.
Nothing,
2016
Bryant University
Nothing, Nathan Rivas
Bryant Literary Review
It's all I have to offer.
Not a penny for the man
shaking his cup,
John, Paul, George And Me,
2016
Bryant University
John, Paul, George And Me, Brian Daldorph
Bryant Literary Review
I was the Beatles' first drummer,
played the first gig at The Cavern
Laundry,
2016
Bryant University
Laundry, Will Walker
Bryant Literary Review
It's what separates us from the beasts.
Plato did not say I only wear
the idea of laundry;
This Man's Life,
2016
Bryant University
This Man's Life, Brian Daldorph
Bryant Literary Review
If only for a short time
a man has all that he wants:
Escape,
2016
Bryant University
Escape, Dolores Redfearn
Bryant Literary Review
Mambo sounds provoke the silence, waking the sleepwalkers in the street below.
A Fifth Of Old Crow,
2016
Bryant University
A Fifth Of Old Crow, Mitch Lescarbeau
Bryant Literary Review
Feathers black as an undertaker's wingtips,
he struts resplendent with a monocle and a walking stick
Laundromat,
2016
Bryant University
Laundromat, Sheila Golburgh Johnson
Bryant Literary Review
Out of the washer
endlessly swirling,
damp and wrinkled
and knotted from harsh
The Man Who Will Perform My Colonoscopy,
2016
Bryant University
The Man Who Will Perform My Colonoscopy, Charles Harper Webb
Bryant Literary Review
As I slouch in the shower, drained by fear
and laxatives, does he look forward to a day
With Birds Flying Below Her,
2016
Bryant University
With Birds Flying Below Her, Patricia O'Donnell
Bryant Literary Review
Where Muriel wants to be is sitting on a terrace, one on a mountain with a view of the ocean.
The Acid God & The Anti-Dad,
2016
Bryant University
The Acid God & The Anti-Dad, Saint James Harris Wood
Bryant Literary Review
With his dirty blond grown-out Beatles haircut, secondhand Hawaiian silk shirts and second-rate flip-flops
Love Match,
2016
Bryant University
Love Match, Ann Robinson
Bryant Literary Review
Beast with cufflinks and condoms,
studmuffin with biceps a woman could climb,
Oh My Brother,
2016
Bryant University
Oh My Brother, Katie Koumarianos
Bryant Literary Review
The rifle stands wedged into the ground
between standard issue combat boots
The Higher Faith,
2016
Bryant University
The Higher Faith, Elton Glaser
Bryant Literary Review
New Orleans, August 2005
When the floodwaters licked at our ankles
And wind prowled around the house,
Bravo,
2016
Bryant University
Bravo, Lisa Starr
Bryant Literary Review
And when, at last,
September rolls around again,
there is a wild flurry among the leaves
Older Brother,
2016
Bryant University
Older Brother, Thomas A. West, Jr.
Bryant Literary Review
As a child I wondered
what the lobster saw in the last second
before it flopped twisting into boiling
Whistler's Mother,
2016
Bryant University
Whistler's Mother, Lisa Starr
Bryant Literary Review
"Why I are you whistling?" I ask.
Have I been? He replies.
Is it annoying?
Into The Storm,
2016
Bryant University
Into The Storm, Tatianna Williams
Bryant Literary Review
Olivia sits in the chair near the silent radio and reaches for her brush with a trembling hand.
The Charleston Church Massacre,
2016
Bryant University
The Charleston Church Massacre, David Dragone
Bryant Literary Review
The reporter with perfect hair and perfect teeth
asked Mrs. Tragedy how she felt
now that her innocent son had been gunned down in church.
