Here are Hidden Peak Press' 2022 Pushcart Prize nominees. Listen, I Need to Tell You Something by Andrea Lawler A Dead Thing by Adam Greenfield A Study of Skeletons / A Cherry Tree Picked Clean by McCaela Prentice The Clearing by Mathieu Cailler Metaphysical Twitch by Margaret Saigh Friend of Pig by Peter Alterman The … Continue reading 2022 Pushcart Prize Nominees
same as any other spring the crow beaks drip red and a wishbone is bleaching on the window sill - it’s nothing like blood, I know that now. I am kept up early by the dry snap of branches and the deer collapsed on roadside lupines licking at their wounds. I’ve held a lot of … Continue reading A Study of Skeletons / A Cherry Tree Picked Clean
I hold the hummingbird with both hands and in that expanse it seems to me a ripple in the water — a reflection fractured like watermelon tourmaline with a sledgehammer. there’s no good reason now for dinner. I do not want to eat with hands that felt a heart’s last flutter — that smoothed the … Continue reading Watermelon Tourmaline
It’s actually so easy. to lie if you’re doing most of it to yourself. I don’t like to practice. I think I’ll buy the one with pine tree resin. I think I’ll drink it in the skatepark. I would kiss you here. I would tell you about my astigmatism and how it makes the skyline … Continue reading Poem In Which I Experience One Emotion And Buy Craft Beer