Truth
Terrance Hayes - { Black Confederate Ghost Story }
Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick - { Worst of It }
Jay Sefton - { I’ll Have a White Zinfandel }
Jeff Boyle - { Apostrophe }{ The Thing Is }{ Domesticity }{ Constantly Approaching Zero }
Reesa Grushka - { Horses }{ Prayer }{ Constellations }
Liz Howort - { Words on Which I Float }
Bernadette McComish - { The Gospel of Donna }
Sarah Heller - { Leaving Egypt }{ Ars Novelica }{ Company }
Untruth
Jeff Friedman - { Willhem of Hands }{ Power Point }{ Pillar of Salt }{ Home Magic }
Syreeta McFadden - { Wingman }
David Ebenbach - { First Flowers }{ The Four Seasons Club }
We Don't Know and They
Won't Tell Us
Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick - { What Man Made }{ Francine Hates Antique Stores for Their Bowls of Lemons }{ How a Home is Made }
Ronda Muir - { Names from History }
John Findura - { Adrienne, I Heard You Were Trapped }{ My Fascination With Mercedes }{ Recharging the Batteries }
Michelle Campagna - { Salt }{ History of an American Face }{ Firebird }{ Satellite }
| How a Home is Made by Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick |
how the sand built up in the ears of little girls
washing their ponies in the desert how they
couldn’t hear until halfway to the moon or so
it felt as if their heart finally free caught
the wind so fast were they riding into pain
to conquer it the fathers some of them left
home because they were thirsty and unloved
by their women slept in shacks with the lost
girls without fathers but the girls with ponies
were free in a moment breaking their bodies
into hooves into windows into women who do not
make homes like their mothers but destroying them
honor them and eat sand until heart-broken open
