by Suchita Senthil Kumar | Sep 27, 2024 | Issue #7, Issues, Poetry
after Fiona Lu My mother gathers electric starlight and sows them across the balcony. Plunge into soil, leave behind a flame. The same fingers snap the necks of garlic bulbs, unravel each layer of dead white skin, over and over again. My mother has...
by Anna Schwartzman | Sep 27, 2024 | Issue #7, Issues, Poetry
Anna Schwartzman was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and was taken to Brooklyn, New York when she was five, where she has been living ever since. She earned an MFA in fiction from Columbia University and is Managing Editor of Circumference, a non-profit Brooklyn-based...
by ay | Sep 27, 2024 | Issue #7, Issues, Poetry
i This is not the first time; it won’t be the last. It’s a sort of catharsis. I pick apart a dead fish with my bare hands, leftovers from dinner at my parents’ house. I’m vegetarian, but they’d forgotten again and given me the cod I hadn’t touched at dinner in a clear...
by J Kramer Hare | Sep 27, 2024 | Issue #7, Issues, Poetry
Just as I was thinking I’d become a gollum, slinking over slick stones in the dank dark of a cavern deep beneath the rays of youth’s naivety; just as I was thinking I’ve been decked in total shadow long enough that even moonlight might make red...
by Terry Chess | Sep 27, 2024 | Issue #7, Issues, Poetry
ripetrashoverdonehotdogsexhaustfumescattlesweatinginsuits swarmingthroughunshavenstreetsheadsbentoveriPhonesoblivious toCACAPHONYofJACKHAMMERSHORNS&SHOUTSdodgebodies sprawledonsidewalkslikecrushedinsectsSIXTY-STORYsteelgods...
by arushi (aera) rege | Sep 27, 2024 | Issue #7, Issues, Poetry
For Campbell Brown 1. HIGH SCHOOL SPEECH AND DEBATE is an academic activity typically available to students. Similar to athletic sports, speech and debate activities are challenging, competitive in nature, and require regular practice, coaching, dedication, and...
