Congratulations to all of our nominees!
2019 Orison Anthology Nominees
Flying Wallendas
I say / skywalking, and no net / can ease that plummet— / sky-walk, / sky-fall.
2019 Best of the Net Nominees
Congratulations to all of our Best of the Net 2019 nominees!
After the Affair, We Clean House
There are four of us still / here cleaning, others have left / silently. My job is to wash the windows.
Beehive State
Smoke drifts westward like saints seeking / Zion, a rose in the desert. / / This faith is a dark handcart / to pull.
Something That Spoke
Something spoke, and something / / inside me answered, / and I understood none of it
Breakfast in the Early Universe
your only prayer / / is the hour singing and hanging at your neck, / until the singing and hanging / become a starless treelight dress you wear
Life-Changing Magic
"I’m not asking for a handout. Fair deal. Cash on wood. I’ll do you a trick. One trick. Life-changing magic, I promise."
ORAL HISTORY OF THE GODS: An interlude on the unbearable cynicism of institutions
And perhaps we create the sacred not by putting our trust in the institutions that are supposed to guard it, but by demanding that these institutions relentlessly revise themselves toward the sacred.
Psaltery & Lyre 