Connect
In Print
Numina: The Enchantment Issue
Fall 2023
Bradford Morrow
Online
March 13, 2024
Ariadne struck the mast
Enraged. She couldn’t sail, no
One had ever bothered to
Teach her, but the ship wouldn’t
Be still. She had awoken
To find Thesus dead, his crew
Dead, and at first she had felt
Relief.
March 6, 2024
The purged caribou heart. First arctic
meal prepared raw, before fire. Before fires
purpled meat, meat was ulued off to serve
an open mouth. First heart’s crevasses
stretched like caribou cut raw. Protoheart
raw in search of fire, red windburn revealed
February 28, 2024
For breakfast, lunch, and dinner. On slices of rubbery white bread buttered with margarine so that the marmalade slides under the spreading knife. In the glass jar, the orange jelly with bright shavings of orange peel absorbs light and invites hungry eyes. And so, dreaming of marmalade, the brothers, always in need of sustenance, arrive on a snowy March morning at Heathrow.
The 2019 Shirley Jackson Award winner reads from his work
Monday, March 25, 2024
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Campus Center, Weis Cinema