• “Not Your Time” and “In the Attic” by Maggie Nerz Iribarne

    “Not Your Time” and “In the Attic” by Maggie Nerz Iribarne

    Not Your Time The light must be busted, I thought. My hands reached out into the deep emptiness, floor boards creaking with reluctant steps. Murmuring voices of my elderly parents and ticking clocks echoed from downstairs. The soft-footed soldiers of memory marched through my mind: my childhood bedroom, packing clothing and coffee pots for college,…

  • II Poems by Cleveland Wall

    II Poems by Cleveland Wall

    Liminal I My lad and I take a short walkto the bottom of the lane behind our house.But the end of the lane is not the end.Beyond lies a road, a swath of green,a wild slope, and the railroad tracks.Beyond the tracks:  canal, towpath,river, mountain; and beyond the mountainare shops and a cinema we knowbecause…

  • A Discussion with Jordannah Elizabeth

      Jordannah Elizabeth is an established writer, activist, and musician from Baltimore and has been a featured columnist with TERSE. since 2016. EIC M. Perle Tahat talked with her about the future of her column and also got a bonus reading list out of it. Check it out for yourself. M. Perle Tahat: You’re a…

  • “Surface Tension” by Gary Hartley

    The oil has spilled and we know it is coming. It will not be contained. There will be no expertise right there where it happened and none when it arrives, because it is us here, just us, with no expertise. Beaches await dark blankets and dead feather beds. Over there, the robots are heading our…

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