with animal goo. Residue of breath and struggle. The news gets worse each day. All the fish go murky blind, swim into cabins of reeds. Somewhere, another gun, another fire. The fish can’t find their way out. They wait for rescue that doesn’t come. The fish end up at the boggy bottom, flesh-rot and nothing […]
Francine Witte
Francine Witte’s poetry and fiction have appeared in Smokelong Quarterly, Wigleaf, Mid-American Review, Passages North, and many others. Her latest books are Dressed All Wrong for This (Blue Light Press,) The Way of the Wind (AdHoc fiction,) and (The Theory of Flesh.) Her chapbook, The Cake, The Smoke, The Moon (flash fiction) was published by ELJ September, 2021. She lives in NYC.
Movie theater, last showing
This late, the blinking light shines back on the audience, and you become the movie. You are the actor who has been all Greta Garbo, all Sean Penn or anyone else who ever lived in public and wanted no one to see. The light from the screen holds you now in its sweaty palm and […]