Miller, Nina

Poetry / The Weekly

September 29, 2022

Life revolves around someone else's gravitational pull, and it's never enough.

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- A Parisian Affair by Kevin Wranovix
  My wife and I arrive in Paris and check into our hotel on the edges of the 2nd and 9th Arrondissement.
- Our Theseus by Nathan Jefferson
  Last week he was a dishwasher who his coworkers called Ricky. Today he’s a day laborer named Eddie, clearing a pair of fallen trees off a new build’s lawn and fixing up a large garden. Rotting plank ripped out, new plank inserted.
- Robbing the Pillars by Marie Goyette
  It wasn’t yet six o’clock when the mine supervisor of Shannon Hill called the Byrd household and woke Ruth out of a simmering sleep.
- The Call by Eben E. B. Bein
- Saturation by Claire Oleson
  I am diving for my mother’s last working kidney.

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