[{"id":1750,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/in-love-with-ruins-by-harry-readhead\/","name":"in-love-with-ruins-by-harry-readhead","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'In Love with Ruins' by Harry Readhead","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2024-07-23 21:59:57","modifiedDate":"2024-08-08 00:03:26","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-08-08 00:03:26","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-10\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 10<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-10\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 10<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":4,"sec":24},"status":"publish","excerpt":"St. Dunstan-in-the-East, an English parish church between the Tower of London and London Bridge, barely survived the Great Fire of 1666. It did not survive what is sometimes called the Second Great Fire: the 60-day German bombing campaign of London, commonly called The Blitz. For mysterious reasons, rather than demolish what remained of St. Dunstan-in-the-East,"},{"id":1762,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/crescent-fruit-love-by-madi-morelli\/","name":"crescent-fruit-love-by-madi-morelli","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'Crescent Fruit Love' by Madi Morelli","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2024-07-23 22:18:45","modifiedDate":"2024-07-23 22:18:48","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-07-23 22:18:48","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-10\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 10<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-10\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 10<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":1,"sec":8},"status":"publish","excerpt":"I took the little crescent moons and scooped them\nLaughing, into a bowl.\nThe knife in my mother\u2019s hands never stopped moving\nA blur of juice and calluses and highlights\nCrystal blue eyes on ceramics."},{"id":1759,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/when-i-should-be-asleep-by-francesca-leader\/","name":"when-i-should-be-asleep-by-francesca-leader","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'When I Should Be Asleep' by Francesca Leader","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2024-07-23 22:14:50","modifiedDate":"2024-07-23 22:14:53","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-07-23 22:14:53","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-10\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 10<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-10\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 10<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":48},"status":"publish","excerpt":"When I Should Be Asleep\n\nI\u2019m thinking of death\/ of watching you cut dough lattices and weave them on top of a pie\/ of death\/ of kissing you inside a hollowed-out tree\/ of death\/ of the infinitesimal crackling of the coppery hairs on your thighs\/ of death\/ of smelling your neck\/ of death\/ of looking int"},{"id":1757,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/i-dont-know-what-its-called-by-sarah-karowski\/","name":"i-dont-know-what-its-called-by-sarah-karowski","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'i don\u2019t know what it\u2019s called' by Sarah Karowski","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2024-07-23 22:11:41","modifiedDate":"2024-07-23 22:11:44","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-07-23 22:11:44","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-10\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 10<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-10\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 10<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":41},"status":"publish","excerpt":"when i want to hold your hand all\nthe time. do i want to feel you inside\n\u00a0\nme? or within\u2014radiate out like\nsunshine, like a late summer day\n\u00a0\nthat turns my air-conditioned skin\ngoose-pimpled. like a deep"},{"id":1754,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/misprision-by-jeffrey-thompson\/","name":"misprision-by-jeffrey-thompson","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'Misprision' by Jeffrey Thompson","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2024-07-23 22:04:54","modifiedDate":"2024-07-23 22:04:57","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-07-23 22:04:57","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-10\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 10<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-10\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 10<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":29},"status":"publish","excerpt":"The moon is one thing\nthe stars another\nI have no right\nto talk about.\nThe sky stands on its toes\nlike any of us, holds its tongue\nlike some."},{"id":1752,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/lost-dog-beagle-vibes-by-francesca-leader\/","name":"lost-dog-beagle-vibes-by-francesca-leader","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'Lost Dog, Beagle Vibes' by Francesca Leader","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2024-07-23 22:02:57","modifiedDate":"2024-07-23 22:02:59","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-07-23 22:02:59","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-10\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 10<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-10\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 10<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":1,"sec":18},"status":"publish","excerpt":"I could take you, and maybe I should\u2014\nit\u2019s dark outside; the next car might crush\nyou. I could save a life, but what\nwould it cost mine, you sweet needy\nsoft-eared thing? A puppy, but you\u2019ll\ngrow. And what of the daily walks?\nThe midnight whining? Carpet piss? Staircase vomit\nin which I might slip and break my neck, for fuck\u2019s\nsake. My daughter hoped we\u2019d get a pet\nonce we left her dad\u2019s house\u2014not hoped, hopes;\nworks it into conversation like a joke\nthat\u2019s only a joke if the answer\u2019s still no.\nWhat do you want for dinner? A dog.\nHa ha. Very funny. I don\u2019t know how\nto explain why I don\u2019t want pets\n(not even a fish) without making her think\nI don\u2019t love her. If I say I\u2019ve got enough on my\nplate, she\u2019ll think I\u2019d like to scrape it clean\u2014\nunload her mood swings & her messes.\nDrop her on a curb somewhere\u2014tagless,\nuncollared\u2014and drive away.\nI just can\u2019t.\nBut I don\u2019t know how to tell my daughter\nmy heart only can stretch so far without snapping.\nFar enough for her, but not for you,\nyou bedroom-eyed burden with your dark-wet\nmouth. I\u2019ve come too close to death already\nin the jaws of something\nthat began by meretriciously\nlaying its head on my lap,\nand looking up as if to say, Please\u2014\nyou\u2019re the only one good enough\nto save me.\n\nFrancesca Leader is a writer originally from Western Montana. Her poetry and CNF have been published in Hooligan, Club Plum, Identity Theory, Sho Poetry, Door is a Jar, Stanchion, Literary Mama, Poetry New Zealand, and elsewhere. Her debut poetry chapbook, \u201cLike Wine or Like Pain,\u201d is available from Bottlecap Press."},{"id":1747,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/how-to-call-in-sick-with-depression-by-billie-sainwood\/","name":"how-to-call-in-sick-with-depression-by-billie-sainwood","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'How to Call in Sick with Depression' by Billie Sainwood","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2024-07-23 21:56:01","modifiedDate":"2024-07-23 21:56:04","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-07-23 21:56:04","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-10\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 10<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-10\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 10<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":1,"sec":17},"status":"publish","excerpt":"Do not call it depression.\nInstead, whittle the disease\nand its woolen language\nuntil it is a cough, a flu,\nan upset stomach.\n\nFocus on the word \"hospital,\"\non the word \"serious.\"\nBefore any talk of coming back and calendars,\npreface each sentence with\n\"Well, the doctors said...\"\nand end these conversations\nwith \"...but I don't know,\nwe just don't know.\"\n\nTry to shrug loud and convincing enough\nthat your boss can hear it\nthrough the phone.\n\nDo not call your brain\na Death Valley pond,\nshriveling with gasping\nwith cooked fish and cracked brown kelp.\nDo not call your apartment\na marshland yawning with looped snakes\nor how you feet slip into and under\nthe tide of your quicksand couch.\n\nMake your sad and weep\nand nebulous unwell\na memo\na bulletin\nan email\nCC'd to all.\n\nWhen your boss asks\nif everything is OK,\ndo not tell him that there is no \u201cEverything.\u201d\nDo not tell him that Everything is a wet wide mouth\ndotted with flat soft blue teeth\nand it is determined to bite\nthrough your spine.\n\nInstead, tell him\n\"yes.\"\n\nTell him\nYou just need to take care of some things.\nYou just need some time off to get better.\nAnd better is not a chalk line horizon, discovered but already dead and your life\nis a busy mortician rouging out the gray, the stiff, the dry crack of a body after it's used.\n\nTell him\nYou are fine.\nYou just need the time off.\nTell him you can't wait\nto get back to work."},{"id":1742,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/for-my-son-who-asked-why-we-love-by-m-benjamin-thorne\/","name":"for-my-son-who-asked-why-we-love-by-m-benjamin-thorne","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'For My Son, Who Asked Why We Love' by M. Benjamin Thorne","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2024-07-23 21:49:40","modifiedDate":"2024-07-23 21:49:43","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-07-23 21:49:43","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-10\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 10<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-10\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 10<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":36},"status":"publish","excerpt":"We all began in darkness\nand were born into another,\nmoving from cave to cave,\nspelunking from the womb\ndown into the world.\nWe spend our lives alone,\nshuffling blindly in the dark;"},{"id":1735,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/how-to-carry-on-by-ophelia-monet\/","name":"how-to-carry-on-by-ophelia-monet","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'How to Carry On' by Ophelia Monet","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2024-07-23 21:39:48","modifiedDate":"2024-07-23 21:39:51","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-07-23 21:39:51","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-10\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 10<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-10\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 10<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":1,"sec":7},"status":"publish","excerpt":"There\u2019s that long pause again,\n\u00a0\u00a0 where Dad hesitates so briefly\nthat I might miss it if I wasn\u2019t paying\n\u00a0\u00a0 attention, if I didn\u2019t know him so well.\n\u00a0\nI know he wants to talk about it\n\u00a0\u00a0 and I so badly want to ask:\nHow did you find her? Does mom\u2019s\n\u00a0\u00a0 death remind you of your mother\u2019s"},{"id":1733,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/museum-of-single-use-objects-by-catherine-l-reeves\/","name":"museum-of-single-use-objects-by-catherine-l-reeves","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'Museum of single use objects' by Catherine L. Reeves","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2024-07-23 21:36:52","modifiedDate":"2024-07-23 21:36:55","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-07-23 21:36:55","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-10\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 10<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-10\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 10<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":1,"sec":21},"status":"publish","excerpt":"Look at what\u2019s left\u00a0\n\u00a0\nwhen the need\u2019s gone:\u00a0\na keen curation of unneed\n\u00a0\nfor the alarm clock; its programmatic\u00a0\nrelationship to morning\n\u00a0\nto us, when we were still in college.\nto work, when we were new-\nly in debt.\u00a0\n\u00a0\nAnd the flashlight stuck\nin the drawer by the back door.\u00a0\n\u00a0\nYou could spot things\nlike it was a sudden thing\nand inside\n\u00a0\na star. Only balloons (breath\u00a0\nsectioned\nand rounded with rubber)\n\u00a0\nwere left on the floor\nafter a graduation party.\u00a0\n\u00a0\nFor what it is\u2014is just a room\u00a0\nno matter what decade you\u2019re sitting in.\u00a0\n\u00a0\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I raised a girl in this room\nand glued\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 her snapped\u00a0\nhorse figurine at the hock\n\u00a0\nneeded for weeding\u00a0\nthe hamper of single knee-high socks.\u00a0\n\u00a0\nAnd I\u2019m certain that girls\u00a0\nwere the first\u00a0\n\u00a0\nmulti-purpose item. What she does\u00a0\nwith the picture window, for instance; buttering\n\u00a0\nin the elm bark, and this autumn\u00a0\nwill be aggressively light-\n\u00a0\nfooted:\u00a0\n\u00a0\npaper plates, fewer strewn q-tips, popsicle sticks,\u00a0\na punk mouth.\u00a0\n\u00a0\nShe\u2019s uptaken for something\u00a0\nelse in the kitchen, all mixed-in; mixly body\u00a0\n\u00a0\nwith utensils, imparting the triangular design.\nSomeone once told me a joke\u00a0\n\u00a0\nwhere the man confused his wife leaving\u00a0\nwith a broken\n\u00a0\nrefrigerator.\u00a0\n\u00a0\nDown the hallway\u2014bookshelves, ourselves,\nWhat doesn\u2019t need dusting, still knows\n\u00a0\nwhen she\u2019s looked at, exactly how\nshe might be seen.\u00a0\n\u00a0\nAs seen through a kaleidoscope: one image\nwith irregular reflections\u2014broken\n\u00a0\nbits of color, but a fixed picture. Falling\nfrom symmetry and sense, if\n\u00a0\nit weren\u2019t so confined\n\u2014as seen through your mother.\n\u00a0\nAnd what\u2019s left around here? More\u00a0\nand more, these days\n\u00a0\nwe model from girls. Siri, Sora,\n\u00a0\nwhile you\u2019re in this bed with me,\nset an alarm and show me\n\u00a0\nhow the sun would rise\n\u00a0\nif we no longer\nhad a use for it."},{"id":1728,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/see-by-ace-boggess\/","name":"see-by-ace-boggess","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'See' by Ace Boggess","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2024-07-23 21:30:01","modifiedDate":"2024-07-23 21:30:22","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-07-23 21:30:22","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-10\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 10<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-10\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 10<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":40},"status":"publish","excerpt":"I will see you soon.\nWhen will I see you?\nI haven\u2019t seen you\nsince before the last storm,\ncity a hazy blaze\nof glimmering stone.\n\u00a0\nI\u2019m alone with my books &\nscent of fried beef, &\nI do not see you\nin any paragraph\nfrom the previous page\nor taste your bread\non my breath."}]
