Matthew Maichen, Author at The Metaworker Literary Magazine

“Emma Marries for the First Time at 54” by John Grey

February 13, 2023February 13, 20230

It’s part dream, part …

“Function” by DS Maolalai

February 6, 2023February 13, 20230

her body falls out …

“Abruptly-” by Shalini Singh

December 10, 2021December 5, 20211

Hotaru ika are a …

“The Sky Traveler” by Dan Yokum

December 6, 2021March 23, 20240

When I remember to …

“Summit Negotiations” by Stephen Kingsnorth

December 3, 2021February 23, 20221

At the cake bazaar,annual …

“Messages from Colorado” by Cameron Morse

November 29, 2021December 10, 20241

Cameron Morse is Senior …

“Damp Streets in a Dry Town” by Timothy Resau

November 26, 2021November 21, 20211

Countless streets going past, …

“Rows” by Stephen Kingsnorth

November 22, 2021November 21, 20211

A strange condition for …

“Red Sun Red Moon” by Dan Yokum

November 19, 2021November 14, 20210

Pauli stood at the …

“Remember Miss Dorothy” by Christopher Matthew Thomas

November 15, 2021November 14, 20211

“Is that Dorothy?” Elaine …

“A Literal Littoral” by Charles J. March III

November 12, 2021November 7, 20210

Will we ever make …

“Lookalike” by Cameron Morse

November 8, 2021November 15, 20210

It’s funny how franticallya …

“The Living Room Express” by Jared Cappel

November 5, 2021November 4, 20210

You tell me I’m …

“Tethered” by Sarette Danae

November 1, 2021November 4, 20210

His is a lariat …

“The Wish” by Paul Rabinowitz

October 29, 2021June 26, 20220

What if I couldpaint …

“One Learns Ruthlessly” by Lydia Storm

October 25, 2021October 24, 20210

“And I learned, gentlemen. …

“Brutal Roux” by Elyse Jancosko

October 22, 2021October 17, 20210

Becca add morebutter Becca. …

“Bird Calls over Puget Sound” by Sarette Danae

October 18, 2021October 17, 20210

There is no chirping …

“Coffee with David Lynch” by Thomas Morgan

October 15, 2021February 23, 20220

“Say I had the …

“Still in the City” by DS Maolalai

October 11, 2021October 10, 20210

on hills by park …

“Running on Empty” by Melissent Zumwalt

October 8, 2021October 4, 20210

June 1999 Bzz…Bzz…Bzz… My …

“Tenderness” by Mary Paulson

October 4, 2021November 20, 20211

Through the eye of …

“To an Armoire” by Goddfrey Sue Hammit

October 1, 2021September 27, 20210

The armoire tips from …

“Fanfare” by DS Maolalai

September 27, 2021September 26, 20210

I piss. it feels …

“A Vacation” by Matthew Brinkley

September 24, 2021September 22, 20210

While his children bickered …

Call for Micro Pieces!

September 22, 2021January 26, 20230

Short update for you …

“Two Gates For Ghostly Dreams” by Dawn Bratton

September 20, 2021September 22, 20210

That motherlode of Sun …

“Searching for the Cottingley Fairies” by Kim Malinowski

September 17, 2021March 23, 20244

I. Snapshot Click. WHIRR. …

“Ruins” by Mary Paulson

September 13, 2021August 15, 20221

Mary Paulson currently lives …

“Picnic” by Matt Dennison

September 10, 2021September 5, 20210

Jane floats her tablecloth …

“String Man” by Hadley James Hoyles

September 6, 2021September 5, 20210

A heaviness paws at …

“The Sands of Time” by Rebecca Johnson

September 3, 2021August 29, 20210

Amber, scarlet, gilded daffodil. …

“No Dreamin’ at the Double Tree” by Suzanne S. Rancourt

August 30, 2021August 29, 20210

everything smells like soap …

“A Season’s Breath” by Turi Ekirapa

August 27, 2021December 6, 20240

I can’t sleep. Deep …

“Avril” by Hadley-James Hoyles

August 23, 2021August 22, 20210

The dull beep raises …

“High Queen” by Zachary Toombs

August 20, 2021July 29, 20240

Zachary Toombs is a …

“Hope is a Blue Jay” by Rebecca Johnson

August 16, 2021August 15, 20211

I.As snow settles upon …

“Departure” by Richard Helmling

August 13, 2021August 8, 20211

On the first day, …

“Pennies for Pilgrims” by Julie Allyn Johnson

August 9, 2021August 8, 20210

Julie Allyn Johnson, a …

“Wildflowers” by Matt McGuirk

August 6, 2021July 25, 20210

People say suburbs are …

“The Dunes” by John Grey

August 2, 2021July 25, 20210

A walk over the …

“sky shocked night” by Robin Wyatt Dunn

July 30, 2021July 25, 20211

sky shocked nightterrific lashesturning …

The Metaworker Podcast | 006 Meditations on Water by Stella Meadows

July 28, 2021March 6, 20240

Episode Description: Editors Matthew, …

The Metaworker Podcast | 005 Kurt by Veronicca Lupinacci

July 28, 2021March 6, 20241

Episode Description: Editors Matthew, …

The Metaworker Podcast | 004 The Poetry of Kate Shannon

July 28, 2021February 1, 20240

Episode Description: Editors Matthew, …

The Metaworker Podcast | 003 Little Gem Magnolia by Paul Rabinowitz

July 28, 2021February 1, 20240

Episode Description: Editors Matthew, …

“Water Towers” by John L. Stanizzi

July 26, 2021July 25, 20210

You’ve seen water towers, …

A Bittersweet Goodbye

July 7, 2021July 7, 20210

After six long years, …

“A Report on the Afterlife” by Michael Mintrom

April 23, 2021June 30, 20210

The bus climbed slowly …

“All the Water in the World” by Kate Copeland

April 19, 2021June 30, 20210

A grey afternoon and …

“The Donkey Saint” by Carl Fuerst

April 16, 2021June 30, 20210

When Emil was in …

“The Veil” by Oisin Breen

April 12, 2021May 1, 20230

The I, That which …

“On Being Home” by Isaiah R. Hicks

April 9, 2021June 30, 20210

1.And you wish it …

“An Account of Our Precipice” by Jason McGlone

April 5, 2021June 30, 20211

We three stare at …

“The Waltz of War and Peace” by Edmund Evanson

April 2, 2021June 30, 20210

Edmund Evanson is an …

“A Wounded Sky” by Andrew Johnston

March 29, 2021March 23, 20240

The sky’s been running …

“Tchotchkes” by Don Noel

March 26, 2021June 30, 20211

“Who’s Rick?” Alicia holds …

“Neighbor” by Darrell Petska

March 22, 2021June 30, 20211

on his roof checking …

“We Built a Fine Madness House” by Lorna D. Keach

March 19, 2021March 23, 20240

Before their house was …

“Penny of Ithaca” by P.L. Watts

March 15, 2021June 30, 20210

She’s even made the …

“Nightlife Spots in Little Rock That No One Knows About” by Jeff Harvey

March 12, 2021August 12, 20220

Little Rock is the …

“A Very Full Closet” by Anonymous

March 8, 2021November 3, 20210

Thijs walks to the …

“Meditations on Water (Ode to Escambia)” by Stella Meadows

March 5, 2021August 15, 20221

I didn’t always know …

“More” by Tom Barlow

March 1, 2021March 1, 20210

Boxes everywhere, boxes overflowing, …

“thick crusts of midnight in the late Ordovician, a wilderness of morning elsewhere” by Kate Shannon

February 28, 2021March 14, 20211

i.other things live easy, …

“Unleashed” by Catherine Zickgraf

February 22, 2021February 22, 20210

I clutch Dad’s oak …

“Sold Sign” by Kate Koch

February 19, 2021February 19, 20210

The sunlight that crawls …

“Through Other Eyes” by Marco Etheridge

February 12, 2021February 12, 20211

You are perched on …

“Recreate” by Shannon Cuthbert

February 8, 2021February 7, 20210

Floating, ghost horse wakes …

“Transformations” by David Henson

February 5, 2021March 23, 20241

Mom’s breathing was shallow, …

“A Steppe Doctor” by Sergei Linkov

February 1, 2021February 1, 20210

The doctor’s fingertips have …

“ghazal for aguas del sur” by Kate Shannon

January 29, 2021February 22, 20221

once, mothers waited for …

“Minotaurs” by Lane Talbot

January 25, 2021April 19, 20221

Red police lights revolved …

“LaMarcus Thompson’s Gravity Pleasure Switchback Railway” by John H. Johnson

January 22, 2021January 17, 20210

August humidity in Coney …

“Dinnertime” by Ulyses Razo

January 18, 2021September 9, 20240

Waiting for a chicken …

“Little Gem Magnolia” by Paul Rabinowitz

January 15, 2021June 28, 20221

I In an old …

“Slate Cleaned on the Bluff” by D. R. James

January 11, 2021January 11, 20210

Up here, the intervals …

“now in the park july no–” by Robin Wyatt Dunn

January 8, 2021January 5, 20211

now in the park …

“Bamboo” by Mary Donaldson-Evans

January 4, 2021January 3, 20210

Privacy. Who doesn’t want …

“Red Summer” by Chariklia Martalas

January 1, 20210

It was the days …

2021 announcements!

December 29, 2020February 26, 20250

…Even though it is …

“Untitled” by Simon Perchik

December 28, 2020December 21, 20200

Even without a caress …

“Gardens” by Andrew DeBella

December 21, 2020December 21, 20200

I I plunged my …

“At the Art Opening” by John Grey

December 18, 2020December 17, 20200

No one is enlightening …

“Skins” by Carson Pytell

December 14, 2020December 14, 20200

Gallery of grotesqueries whence …

“Pour toi, mon amour” by Tasnia Nahla

December 12, 20200

Chaos sings, we areDisintegrating …

“Thin Places” by Steven Croft

December 7, 2020December 6, 20200

Through a broad valley …

“Gone” by BH James

December 4, 2020March 22, 20240

Bob Sanders awoke one …

“Upon Being Published” by Ulyses Razo

November 30, 2020September 9, 20240

Riding shotgun, I look …

“Pop” by Benjamin Schmitt

November 27, 2020November 22, 20200

Getting all the feels …

“Other Wars” by Greg Farnum

November 23, 2020November 22, 20200

1 It was a …

“Take it Off” by Evan Rodenhausen

November 20, 2020March 23, 20240

It’s odd. I’ve never …

“Glass” by Chariklia Martalas

November 16, 2020November 16, 20200

Did they tell you …

“Ode to a Speck” by Thomas Piekarski

November 13, 2020November 12, 20200

Out of respect I …

“Field Trip” by John Grey

November 9, 20200

You wake up on …

“Zoom In-Out-In and Cry” by Hibah Shakhez

November 6, 2020November 5, 20200

Earth o’ mine green …

“Bones” by Japhy Mitchell

November 2, 2020November 1, 20200

The winds switch faster …

“Foe” by Matthew Chamberlin

October 30, 2020January 10, 20210

Hidden under sheets of …

“The Dog in You” by Omar Hussain

October 26, 2020February 13, 20223

My self-destruct button pops …

“Kurt” by Veronica Lupinacci

October 23, 2020February 22, 20222

Kurt wouldn’t eat yellow …