Pifmagazine - pifmagazine.com - Pif Magazine
General Information:
Latest News:
Sharyn Wolf 1 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
Sharyn Wolf, a practicing psychotherapist in New York City, is the author of the memoir, Love Shrinks: A Memoir of a Marriage Counselor’s Divorce (May 3, 2011). Prior to writing her memoir, Wolf wrot...
A late night boat ride 1 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
I have no idea why, probably because it’s summer, but the boat mishap I was involved in years ago suddenly came to mind. It may have been triggered by the board accident on the Hudson River near the T...
After Rain, Portland 1 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
Tonight’s street theater in rehearsal around bridge legs, street urchins encircle a fire barrel while pigeons arc iridescent, unloading over happy hour. I take in the view at mid-bridge. Gl...
Westward 1 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
I’d examined the photograph hanging above our master bathroom’s toilet. The contrast of black and white gave depth to the desert landscape. I wanted you to take me West. Help me escape where the ...
Notes Above Water 1 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
Captain says Hawaii’s early, To subtract six hours Before landing. I’m lousy at adjusting hands On Mondays, especially when The one I love Lives in tomorrow’s time zone. Broken since four...
Father, Son, and the Holy Obit 1 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
My father succumbed to lung cancer on December 29, 2010. An hour after my brother Terry, and I left hospice that morning—having learned he would not regain consciousness—I sat down in my home offi...
The Mongoose and the Goat 1 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
Photo by Kevin Zamani When I first saw the goat, I was at the park reading DIY: Cabinet Installation, envisioning the kitchen my apartment could have, that I could give it with the right tools. Th...
I Can See Our Future 1 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
January 2 You look hot in pink. It doesn’t mean you’re gay, but that you’re comfortable with your masculinity. That Lacoste polo you have, the one you wore to Max McHull’s Boxing Day Bash. Pale pink,...
Stereophonic Behemoth 1 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
I commit the shape of your song to words, so that it might hatch, ravenous, into an unsuspecting future, a malicious gift from a jealous echo sent to loom in dark corners and terrify small childr...
Silver Fox Farm 1 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
My great-grandmother’s father owned a fox farm where they bred silver foxes for coats. I’ve always meant to ask what it was like growing up and breeding stealth, harvesting smoke. Did their faces m...
