Issue 5: Summer 2019
In 2020, the WCDH will celebrating its 20th anniversary! Since opening its doors in 2000, the WCDH has spent twenty years providing a creative sanctuary for...
Spotting Animals
My father drives slowly, headlights off. One hand on the car’swheel, one working the silver spotlight soaking the road’s edgeswith roving circles of white...
The Oldest Tree
I researched “Oldest Tree.”After a few distractions and a lot of dead ends, I found a tree listed that seemed within range of my actually visiting it. There...
Refrain
Long piano player fingers and large pencil eraser nipples Perfect parts on an aging bodyThe rest of my breasts too smallto satisfy society’s C-cup...
Bahar Zaferi
Part I I On May 5th, 2012 I was at my friend Nate’s place in Tulsa, Oklahoma (near 41st and Harvard). We drank and smoked a bit the night before so I didn’t...
Eva and the Snake
Wound around a branch of Knowledge,Eden’s first Ivory Tower—his Professor to her Co-ed(a word that God would never use)—dappled light on his greying...
Blueberry Jane
An early spring morn, yet not quite awake,I heard a young choir so pure, yet opaque.A drift before sentient, a dissonant state,Unconscious, yet conscious, a...
Christmas Eve Earthquake
In 1974, the United States Government posts job openings for the building of a new research station at the geographic South Pole. Larry applies for and is...
Driving While Under the Influence (of lies)
She told me she hadtried to write fifteenpoems based on thetheme Love is just a LiarBut after number elevenshe drove her car offthe road and througha fence...
Waiting for Midnight
My grandson says Ouma, you’re just like Cinderellaas I feed carrots and kale to five rabbits in the backyardSeeds to the squirrels and twenty-some species of...
Out of the Ashes
Chapter 16: Diagnosis F31.73 “Sallie, you have bipolar disorder,” *Dr. Lane stated. Bi-po-lar dis-or-der, bi-po-lar dis-or-der stomped across my mind. I bit...
Her Babies (8-25-51)
She miscarriedunder the lightsover Lubbockand she nevertried againShe said thosewere all herbabies now Thoselights that flewover Lubbock thenight she miscarried
A Feather Stone
feather stonelay in a flint rock gardenan undiscovered findpicked up and placedjust like so many others that dayin my pocketspiled high on the kitchen...
Posthumously, To Keith Haring
I almost stepped on the outline of a dog,drawn with yellow paint the width of a small brush,on the concrete slab gracing the entrance tothe 6th Street...
Poems and Petals
I placed several of the petalsbetween the pages ofFavorite Love Poems of All TimeTo get the pressing affectI stacked on it Rosen’sScientific Explorations:...
Gull Chaos
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In Praise of Men in Uniforms
Thing I and Thing II were coming for a visit, which required preparations: meds relocated, furniture turned into blockades, glass tabletop corners cushioned,...
Hardwood
Trying to sneak past Mama’s room the floor creaks,first time since those boards went down a hundred years agohand-planed from ash, eight solid inches wide....
Three Fables
33 Teacher Goose told Piglet: “Please,write on the board your 33’s!” Piglet went, but stood stock still.“Ready then? Write what you will.” Piglet stood there...
Prometheus
Do you think youinvented ragethe need to Facebook.to blog,to tweetto keep up?Every daychained to a fire,every nighta new cyber liverto grow.Previously...