Tag: New Limestone Review
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Princess Manor
It felt like a violation to be in Princess Manor alone. It felt like a violation to be a woman there at all, wearing floppy jeans and a wrinkled sweater. Men looked at me as I walked to a booth at the rear, then averted their eyes, like I was a living person in the…
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Maurice Carlos Ruffin on We Cast a Shadow
If you’re trying to fit into someone else’s box, you’re gonna end up destroying yourself Conversation between Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Ash Baker, and Zeke Perkins
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Life
When the doctor came in, I was still / in that other place, the ocean where your blood / met my blood in caves and our baby breathed / without breath inside me. I knew she was coming Poetry by Monica Wendel
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Dear Editor of Kentucky Journal
Can we recommend a willow switch? Can you hear us in the Iron lungs and sorrow of the State Sanatorium for the feeble minded? Can you hear their ghosts on the sawgrass wind? Prose Poetry by Sean Thomas Dougherty
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Abyssal Giant!
What it is to live as an abyssal giant/ but beached, huge and primeval Poetry by Joseph Zenoni
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Riven
George Ella Lyon, George Ella Lyon poems, Kentucky poetry, Kentucky poets, New Limestone Review, NLR poetryTwo poems by George Ella Lyon Someone wails / in the basement / of my dream. / Amid the wailing / I hear a welter of water.
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Late Spring
Jim McDermott, Jim McDermott fiction, Jim McDermott short stories, New Limestone Review, NLR fictionFiction by Jim McDermott My wife and I had just moved back to the States from Ireland then. I was about to turn forty-one. Our longest try at living somewhere other than home had brought us to another dead end.
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Lives of the Rabbits
Two poems by David Welch If we are / to accept the rabbits of autumn, asked / the audience, must we accept also the green / life of the bird on the tree, how it looks like a leaf / as it pales