Two Micros by Jared Povanda

The Idea of a Thing is Not the Thing Itself This boy wants a cat for the idea of a cat. Real responsibility chokes him. This boy wants to embody the writer—navy sweater, gold chinos, salmon boat shoes, honey hair tousled, thick brown glasses, posing with the frothing sea at his back, black feline inContinue reading “Two Micros by Jared Povanda”

Two Micros by Melissa Llanes Brownlee

Tweezer Your hair is going gray but you don’t want to dye it yet. That would admit defeat. I part its darkness in uneven rows, with a comb, starting in the front and working my way to the back, hunting. Pull it out from the root, you instruct, but I can’t get a good gripContinue reading “Two Micros by Melissa Llanes Brownlee”