poetry

"Loss Regained" by Deron Eckert

This is not like the other times, of initial refusal, eventual acceptance, inevitable treatment. Unlike the times of womb, throat, and...

"wraparound" & "mothering" by Zoe Gianfrancesco

wraparound maybe it’s in the breath of It, how even menthol-wrapped, He can put life to it with a well-placed sigh, our arc a paper-thin...

"Manic Depression (A Boy Can Dream)" by Lachie Kairo

So then, you take a toothpick, some tweezers of course you don’t want to clean your teeth, you just want to tear yourself apart. Building...

"Methuselah Remembered" by Simon Leonard

In your kitchen it will always be late summer, Bessie Smith churning through the blues, some piano fluttering to keep up. A CD whirs...

"Necromancer in Anthropocene" by Terry Trowbridge

Tired of technocracy clear-cutting the valleys, a mountainside necromancer brings home the teeth from several steam shovel buckets,...

"In Philadelphia, My Love" & "An Ode to Sin" by Pierce Leon Vencer

In Philadelphia, My Love We turned the streets of Philadelphia into fighting arenas when we’d drag our issues from jazz bars and take...

"when we lived on the moon" by Sally Armstrong

when we lived on the moon we danced to techno wearing spacesuits caught space rocks in tiny glass jars we laughed loudly in a dark sky...

"Be Nice To Your Cremation Technician" by Ly Faulk

Bathe your body with excellent fatty foods so that you burn more quickly. Go soft in the joints and hard places. Your cremation...

"Reclamation Of A Land Once Stolen" & "Only A Name" by Akleyiaha R.

Reclamation Of A Land Once Stolen Her dress flows. Silk of mulberry heavied by tears. Yampee-eyed, cracked lips in the yolk of day. She...

"FOXFIRE 7", "The Worst Things I've Done" & "Perspective/Waterfront" by Daniel Miller

FOXFIRE 7 Mama said I was born in the bathtub. Came right out the drain when she was getting ready to wash. The creek was low, that day,...

"Puffed Up", "In Tandem" & "Meditation at North Beach Park, Burlington" by Anne Whitehouse

PUFFED UP From wax, Leonardo formed a doughy mass, and when it softened, he shaped it into delicate animals filled with air. He blew into...

"Imprinted" & "Heartache" by Edward Anki

Imprinted It’s something about time the torturous divine this image of tiny lizards scurrying ancient stone walls with which I remained...

"The sort of thing that wouldn’t happen in the office" by Leia Butler

Fuck, he's left the milk out, I can see it behind his head. And this meeting is due to last an hour, and I want to tell him, I cannot...

"It's April and" by Katherine Schmidt

It’s April and there’s sticky apple blood on my chin, a rock in my pocket, and I’m simultaneously 48 and 12 years old: ready to explore...

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