Irrealis moods

hope gangloff

“You wake up one morning and there it is, 
sitting in an old plaid bathrobe in your kitchen, 
unpleasant and unshaved. 
You look at it, heart sinking. Madness is a rotten guest.” 





Ellen Heck

 Because my tongue 

 spoke harshly, I said: 

 Make it dust. 

                   And yet 

 it was not death, but 

 her body in its green dress 

 I longed for. 

Duncan Hannah






...cracked in the twisted

aftermath of a smile. Even without glasses,

he remembers her in high style: magnanimously

coming down the blue & violet threads of night,

her green dress clashing with the bathroom tile.

Barnaby Whitfield


somaye ashtari




donna malone









liu chenyang








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1. line - Marya Hornbacher
2. line - gregory orr
3. line - a.matejka