by Tracy Dubin Remember Me Through Non Sequiturs I’ve Written into My Cell Phone Notes App While in Love Is it my phone or your phone? Which of us is gloriously fucking it up now. A lot has happened since we last spoke. I fell in love with someone who wasn’t you, and I’m also […]
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by Matthew Baker Orientation: A Zuihitsu I lie on the couch, feet raised toward the arm rest, a book propped againstmy chest. I lie as the sun burnishes the carpet a beige-gold hue in the afternoon.My body a compass needle. Each direction lying in wait: “Orientation” comes originally from the French verborienter. It suggests the […]
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Cantos from an Anatomically Correct Chronology by Manuel A. Melendez SATURN Cantos from an Anatomically Correct Chronology What flesh did Saturn[1] savor first? Was it the gummy thigh by the ass-cheek? The creamy-white chest where the heart-blood is juiciest? Maybe he suckled a tender finger until the marrow gave way to a skeletal hollow. Did he […]
by Jodi Cressman We are Looking at Photographs of Todd Domboski, Centralia, Pennsylvania, Valentine’s Day, 1981 We see Todd in his grandmother’s backyard, awkward, upright, like the column of steam that he was viewing up close when the ground gaped and he slid into the shaft where a mine fire was smoldering miles beneath his […]
by Chrissy Kolaya and Nathan Holic Author Chrissy Kolaya is the author of one novel, Charmed Particles (Dzanc Books) and two books of poems: Other Possible Lives and Any Anxious Body (Broadstone Books). Her short fiction and poems have been included in the anthologies New Sudden Fiction (Norton) and Fiction on a Stick: New Stories […]
by Jacob Griffin Hall I Miss You Thank You for Being Here 1. Inside every place is a vast reservoir of feeling. Inside every person, too. Sometimes, when my mood is right, I can feel the reservoirs mixing. The currents touch each other and stir. I feel them in my stomach, outside of my body, […]
by Candace Angelica Walsh Warning Signs Your Guy Friend is a Garden Variety Creep: What You Should Know and Next Steps Ethically Reviewed by peers of Author on October 29th, 2024 Written by: Candace Angelica Walsh (she/her) 15 min read Garden Variety Creep /noun/: A person masquerading as a friend to have greater access to you, […]
by Amanda Russell Mending with Milkweed (a documentary-style poem in 10 parts) 1.A mermaid dolldropped in an empty driveway— sightless eyes turned to the cloudless sky. When will the child realize what’s missing?” 2. Seeing a kaleidoscope of Monarchs butterflies around the lantana bush as big as my grandmother’s red car was as normal as the […]
by Robert Eric Shoemaker Poet/Artist Robert Eric Shoemaker (he/him) is a poet, translator, and interdisciplinary artist. He is the author of three books: Ca’Venezia (Partial Press, 2021), an artist’s book of hybrid writing and visual art; We Knew No Mortality (Acta Publications, 2018), poetry and memoir; and the poetry chapbook 30 Days Dry (Thought Collection Publishing 2015).
by Eneida Alcalde Borikén, 1955 En la finca at the center of the world, we meet you in your opening chapters curly haired, round-eyed Boricua stretching awake before daybreak along with her brothers and sisters, Mami waiting by the door as you line up between the bunk beds, oldest to youngest, ten boys and girls […]
by Catherine Broadwall The Selkie Agrees to an Interview When you came onto land in woman form, just what were you hoping to do? The moon was as full as a prophecy that night. I wanted to hear her aura sing. When the man snuck up on you, didn’t you sense him? The leaves were […]
by Jose Trejo Maya (Editor’s Note: Click on the image for an expanded view) Poet/Artist Jose Trejo Maya is a remnant of the Nahuatlacah oral tradition a tonalpouhque mexica, a commoner from the lowlands from a time and place that no longer exists. Published in the UK, US, Spain, India, Australia, Argentina, Germany and […]
by Steve Wing Pilgrim My friend Cary once remarked that back in the ‘70s I’d occasionally declare a desire to make love to the Earth itself. I remembered having that notion, but hadn’t quite realized I’d ever said anything about it out loud (though people were making proclamations right and left in those days.) Maybe […]
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