Theory Where shall I start today, where shall I finish? Do I mean in the garden? No, everywhere. Trust to a new method, a new process, a different pedagogy. Theory will get you everywhere, but only in theory. One step into the garden is a revolution, one into the street is a suicide, one […]
Issue 39 Poetry: King, Queen, Knight; Leaving the Garden; Homeless; and All This, Just Now, This Once by Richard Wollman Fiction: The Do Better Girl by Gail Upchurch Visual Arts: Morning Walk, Drop in the Ocean, and Wave by Haylee Morice Fiction: Dick Cheney Shot me in the Face by Timothy O’Leary Poetry: Becoming Horizon, […]
“Becoming Horizon,” “Gardeners,” and “Hanahaki” by Amanda Shu appeared in Issue 39 and can be found here. We’d love to hear more about this set of poetry. Both “Hanahaki” and “Gardeners” were written as responses to the deaths of close family members, at very different stages of my personal grieving processes for each. Both involve […]
Read More: A brief Q&A with Amanda Shu Becoming Horizon Weeks after marriage to please rain god, frogs divorced to end downpour.–New Delhi Television, 9/13/ 2019 We were brown and green as new mudwhen they wed us, the ones who smeared sindoorfrom my forehead down the ridges of my barrenback. Crushed cinnabar and turmeric and […]
“The Discovery,” “Blue,” and “It Begins with Palm Trees” by Glen Vecchione appeared in Issue 38 and can be found here. We’d love to hear more about this set of poetry. I jumped at the opportunity to submit three poems to Sequestrum’s wonder-themed issue and was happy when all were accepted. Our capacity to feel astonishment […]
From the window of our house we could sometimes see Winn Handler—the Winn Handler—sitting alone in his kitchen, lit by a Tiffany chandelier, head bowed forward, long hair glowing a warm yellow-white. We’d giggle idiotically, thinking how lucky we were to live next to such a beloved celebrity. He was a lot older now, must […]
Read More: A Brief Q&A with Joan Slatoff Three months ago, before my world changed, I sat cross-legged on a meditation cushion in Beth’s upscale living room. She slumped on the white leather sofa, her body resembling a partially deflated balloon, worried about her fourteen-year-old daughter, Angie. I’ve always idolized my sister, Beth. Six years […]
As a boy, he spent afternoons at the Steinway, a concert grand, whose erect top bollixed the sunlight that broke through the clouds hovering over Puget Sound. By sixteen, he was sure of only two things: he loved Beethoven, and boys. When his fingertips pressed the ivory keys, and the music he made came […]
“Finally Some Sleep” “Garden Ghost” “The Path” “Doorway 308” A Kansas City based illustrator and animator, Caleb Worcester has been drawing for as long as he can remember. His work combines traditional and 3D illustration to breathe life into vibrant and surreal environments. Caleb works as a freelance illustrator, animator, and visual development artist. He’s […]
Read More: A brief Q&A with Ben Weakley I Meet Afghanistan Beside a Dirt Road Cut Into Mountain Afghanistan appears as an old man with hazel eyes sunken behind the furrowed skin of an almond face marked by years of sun, work, and death. I meet him in a village when he shuffles toward the […]