by C.E. Brady | Sep 25, 2022 | Issue #5, Poetry
Yeah, put the leftovers in one of the jars on the second shelf;no, I know there’s a lid that fits, I promiseI’m working on a new organization system for the pile up there,what a mess! I need to learn how to let goof every exponential almond butter jar I am compelled...
by Keagan Wheat | Sep 25, 2022 | Issue #5, Poetry
Logan unpacks needles, swabs, syringe, bandaidI settle my knee against his thighAs we sit on his Star Wars comforter.He plays Elton John, tiny speakerscompleting ritual._______Alone, I track 26 minute walkwith sagging backpackHawthorne, Montrose,Westheimer....
by Stan Galloway | Sep 23, 2022 | Issue #5, Poetry
Your names toll in my dreams. “26,” – Rachel Eliza Griffiths I do not know your names your faces.The...
by D.W. White | Apr 29, 2022 | Issue #4, Issues
Tomorrow knocks againSo patientlyCarrying the pain of her childrenAnd asking us to let her inFor she is a solitary travelerWith only one door to try D.W. White is a graduate of the M.F.A. Creative Writing program at Otis College in Los Angeles and Stony Brook...
by Rayne Alarcio | Apr 29, 2022 | Issue #4, Issues
The world is my mother and Mother is a witch,she says, a psychological horror protagonistwalled in, exit forbidden sans consent.Lest the teen princess be exiled. The hearth is ravenous, cavernous,cold as the word no.The screen is her ladder,her savior. Purveyor of...
by Brandon North | Apr 29, 2022 | Issue #4, Issues
I’m climbing out of this secret.At the benefactress soiree,I tuck a ladder inside my ear to remind myselfno personality lives beyond the person.Often they die long before the bodies.I don’t explicate myself as a mere bodythe way publicly funded aphorists...
by Elizabeth Ellson | Apr 29, 2022 | Issue #4, Issues
there’s a shade of bluethat pulls in with the cloudsover the glacierwhere the ice pushes back against Apollobegs the navy, canary meshing opento give it coveragefrom the rushing of the meltit prefers the greys which protect its coverits vulnerability liesin picture...
by Alex Sosebee | Apr 29, 2022 | Issue #4, Issues
i.if i’m telling the truth—and i am, this time—every time i look at myself in the mirror i’m looking for someone else.this secret dialect, disguised in broad daylight, selfhood splitin two: perceived and imagined. the gap is so wide it echoes.what ungodly thing i...
by Ieva Dapkevicius | Apr 29, 2022 | Issue #4, Issues
Ieva Dapkevicius “The city’s name is the same as one of the Ukrainian namesfor Artemisia vulgaris, mugwort or common wormwood.”Etymology of ‘Chernobyl’, O. S. Melnychuk”… and the name of the star is called...
by Ieva Dapkevicius | Apr 29, 2022 | Issue #4, Issues
August, and the days seep into dark sand.Hems of lace trail behind each wavethat retreats from the shore, identical,unnumbered.Bramble-month! My thoughts blackenfrom red to ripe to rot amidst your thorns.Dawn arrives wrapped in shawlsof spider-silk fog beaded with...
