Contributions by Michael Levan

Issue 24 | Winter 2020

Distance

By | Nonfiction

The man should have known distance is already in her. / It moves her farther from them all, it has her / collapse on the bathroom floor heaving / obscenities into her faith and not feeling / the least bit guilt for each four-lettered cry.

Issue 24 | Winter 2020

Locked Away

By | Nonfiction

Between her hospital room and home, there are miles / of darkness she must learn / to make light. She must understand again / this is not she. She is locked away in some distant cell / in some faraway prison in some remote city / she doesn’t know the name of, let alone / …

Issue 15 | Summer 2014

Short History of Falling

By | Poetry

One half of the moon fell lightly through the window as night fell silent, and I felt oddly old and incapable of love, another gray February, afraid as I was to fall asleep to my own breath or bird’s song falling ever fair by some order no one understands, least of all me who feels …