
THIRD HEAVEN by Rebecca Grace Cyr
The next day, I bought the cheapest plane ticket I could find and booked a night in the Super 8 outside of Coeur d’Alene. The room had red checkered half-curtains and free toothpaste.

The next day, I bought the cheapest plane ticket I could find and booked a night in the Super 8 outside of Coeur d’Alene. The room had red checkered half-curtains and free toothpaste.

Gutters reads America’s remaining local print newspapers to create a found poetry of lost housing. All text is found spanning the gap (‘gutter’) between two or more adjacent columns of newsprint in articles pertaining to the housing crisis, land conservation, and climate catastrophe.

Has anyone else noticed the expanding universe?

When I think of setting, I like using the word figment, because it’s defined as something that a person believes to be real, but only exists in their imagination.

I’ve found that hobbies are a great way to distract yourself from the fact that it’s too late to realize your potential.

A fissure opened in the earth. The car found it, slowing in the way that makes you realize how fast you were going.

I’m not a smoker, but once a year or so I get a bad craving for CIGARETTES.

Now just relax, take a deep breath, and try not to let your heart beat.

At night, when the palm trees begin to cast shadows and the city begins to reflect the vast disparities between affluence and adversity, Stevie’s sleepless mind can no longer dream, literally and figuratively.

Just as there will be a day when I pick up my daughter for the last time, there was an evening when a lamplighter lit his last lamp.