by Trinity Richardson Ode to the American Flagfish My own bulldog-fish guarding me from quantifiable vortex-time (for the time being) 24/7 swimmer, algae eater, feisty, nipping summer breeder Pursed fish-lips press hard against it I mean, tall glass of water, I mean, them’s-fightin’-words reflection of Liberty Bell c u r v e s Strawberry popping pearl acid reflux slick oyster-tongue remembers Double O Seven warm […]
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by Liz Kicak Dream Theory: Losing Teeth II spit teeth into my hands, until my hands overflow.I spit teeth into my hands like apple seeds.Apples so filled with seeds my hands overflow So I stuff teeth in my pockets until my pockets overflow.I stuff teeth in my pockets like pearls dropped from a strand.Like pearls […]
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THE FINAL SHEDDING
by Alex Bortell THE FINAL SHEDDING I hold yourhead underwater. An alibifor cumulus.Your electric currentcurtained. I castyou infeathers.Saintof the pocked lung.A sturgeonslithers along yourmesial. Wetting memory’stongue. Yougrip the soiled edgeof fiction and Iwatch theflood. Measuring distancebetween canyons. Loosening ourborders.We stopcounting hairpricking the dampfields ofstomach.Inspecting a fossilof someother body’sbetrayal. Hungeris a languageI am always learning. Identifiable […]
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Saturn
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 […]
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The Hope Chest
by Emily Harper Ellis The Hope Chest Gloria had never seen a dead man before and knew, as soon as her truck crested the hill, that she was experiencing one of her life’s defining moments and had better do it right. He was perfectly, doubtlessly dead: his hands and face were blue and every inch […]
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