Articles by VinylEditors

i’m sitting on a bench
waiting for the train

a man sits next to me
and compliments my
purple shoes […]

Body and Steel That evening at Ojuelegba, a loaded container fell from the bridge above, and crushed the body of a Hausa merchant beyond recognition. I also felt nothing at the first telling by an […]

I forget the Czech for “stamp” in the post office and start making up words instead the number of times you must say any name out loud to make a spell of the sounds: reporacle […]

ON THE OCCASION OF THE POET’S SUDDEN DEATH There are different kinds of dying                      my heart’s still not right all night I shake scorpions            from the Technicolor bath towel how do we mourn […]

J. Scott Brownlee is a poet-of-place from rural Texas. His work appears widely and includes the chapbooks Highway or Belief (Button Poetry Prize, 2013), Ascension (Robert Phillips Prize, 2015), and On the Occasion of the […]

Nipples, Ribs, and Helixes The point at which incarceration becomes inhuman begins at the body. First boundary we come up against: mouth, breast, ripe nipple. A shark tooth betwixt her clavicles, her hair helixing down, […]

I thought I saw a deer disrepair function / from behind one of the trunks / or branch bore back in the beating […]

i am a cricket now
in a crevice of ur room
i want to be a cute cricket
a creaking floor board cricket […]