by Galileo Press | Nov 11, 2022 | Galileo Press
When we arrived at the camp they pulled us off the buses and made us do push-ups in the parking lot. The asphalt was hot and tar stuck to our noses. They made fun of our clothes and took them away from us. They shaved our heads until little white scars showed through,...
by Barrett Warner | Aug 17, 2022 | Galileo Press
Once a book contract is signed, the rush for blurbs is so rushed. Especially for a debut collection. As if the years of creating would still depend on green lights, even after publication. As if each book were a traffic intersection. As if it still needed whistle...
by Galileo Press | May 28, 2022 | Galileo Press
Content Warning: Suicide Originally published at Measure Review In Memory of Jim Simmermanby John Philip Drury “Ever the best of friends,” your letters ended,great expectations for a wave of yearsthat promised more reunions, correspondence.But all that’s over. The...
by Anniebelle Quattlebaum | May 1, 2022 | Galileo Press
Waiting, one feels timelike space the way one speaks of a tree,meaning not, as here in this yard,the fat trunk of a beech that bulgesbefore its branches beginto branch — meaning rather the loss we hideby counting up: Up, the way the tree grows,or the way we...
by Anniebelle Quattlebaum | Feb 6, 2022 | Galileo Press
There was a knock and then there wasn’t.There was a door and then there wasn’t.There was a knock, a door….I follow your footprints across the wet grass.They lead to a river black as anthracite.And a boat without oars. Sleep is a desert that lets me...
by Anniebelle Quattlebaum | Nov 27, 2021 | Galileo Press
for John and Joe The blue-grey steeples of the pines,the lake’s cold oval: our perception of these shapesmakes us particularly human.Like tourists living on the shoreof what really matters, we can lean backand say “These clouds are marble...
