Recently added articles from Antigonish Review:
Church Doors
Jan 01, 2009; ... Rain trickles on the car's windshield as we pull into the empty parking lot. A country church in the dead of night, the only light a few fingers of pale orange from street-lamp on the road. We kill the engine, check the satchel in the back seat: half a bottle of cheap malt liquor, black markers, ...
How I Became One Of My Poems
Jan 01, 2009; ... This is the story of-, who woke one morning in her bedroom to the sound of dogs barking and realized that her body was the same shape as Ubu's in Max Ernst's portrait, wrote the young novelist who had decided she wanted to write something clever. Her previous attempt, which was a story itself in ...
Wings and Beaks
Jan 01, 2009; ... Torrential night. A nest in a horse chestnut's drawn me outdoors, at last, after so many years, so many finer springs, to see how others make do. I have grown old, unseen, here on the swamped rural road: bats too high at dusk to ...
From Landscapes and Home Ghazal 3
Jan 01, 2009; ... There is a candle burning on the edge of this table. An older sister washes her sheets in the downstairs bathroom. Carving soapstone into the face of a Zulu. Burnt straw. A sponge drips onto a wooden floor. Sometimes children forget where they are ...
Dog in Montemorelos
Jan 01, 2009; ... You trot past, udders swaying, unconcerned. Spine curved inward to support bloated belly. I try not to see the city as unclean. To use the restroom, I have to reattach the toilet seat. Your demeanor is callous, a swagger. Do you chase ...