Gabriel Welsch

Unemployed

As she puts the receiver in the cradle, she knows how she will change: in the coming week, she will cancel the cable, the paper, and the Internet. Her son will whine that she has a cell phone and she will tell him, while at the breakfast table before school, [...]

Daphne Gottlieb

the ballad of bunny toes

bunny toes
he called me
bunny toes

not with the snidering chide
of the neighborhood boys who
pushed me in the mud but

bunny toes with
the coddle and swagger
a toddling duckling launching

towards a beckoning
pond and
bunny toes he said

not muffin lips
or angel eyes but
bunny toes, his eyes

peering through his lashes
sun stippling through a [...]

Bruce Cohen

Baby Permit

You have to get a learner’s permit and attend
Driving school for six months before you can
Even book your driver’s test but you can just take
Your baby home from the hospital without
Any training or certification or psychological evaluation.
One of my sons was born with eleven toes
I thought in the excitement [...]