"Sexual Tension At The Mormon Teenage Nativity" by Kristin Garth
A Bible brond woman blows out unruly brunette hair, darkens your virgin eyelashes, light lengths, “who knew those were there.” Unholy...
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- Dec 19, 2021
- 1 min
"tanka for the stray cats outside my window" by Jack Apollo Hartley
porchlight-lit lovers, they spoon tabby over white— dream their own warm home. let the sun burn out, freeze black, so as not to...
- Dec 19, 2021
- 1 min
"Between the Folds of Trauma" by Doryn Herbst
CW: Sexual abuse I listen to a survivor of incest telling an interviewer about how there were days when we would sit as a family for a TV...
- Dec 19, 2021
- 3 min
"blake's opinions over his digestif (strega)", "in the men's room"...by Adam Johnson
blake's opinions over his digestif (strega) they were sitting around after dinner his daughter told him that none of the girls in her...
- Dec 19, 2021
- 2 min
"Blue Fire", "Variation on Gwendolyn Brooks", and "Self-Portrait" by Ulyses Razo
Blue Fire When in the morning, the star grass Freezes like frostweed, I feel at home. Save for this brown button-up, which chokes Half my...
- Dec 19, 2021
- 1 min
"3 Winter Poems" by Penny Sarmada
How would they know? in the moments before freezing to death warmth overcomes you like a blanket of acceptance like an embrace of...
- Dec 19, 2021
- 2 min
"The hunter is haunted", " I had hoped you were hiding", and "Lamentations" by Melody Wang
The hunter is haunted by images of a home he once knew, destroyed — a deconstructed fox hole, a pile of sticks and stones patiently...
- Dec 19, 2021
- 2 min
"Handyman Special" and "Cracking Eggs" by Matt McGuirk
Handyman Special Handyman Special: it’s just right for someone with a few skills, some time on their hands and some elbow grease. That...
- Dec 19, 2021
- 1 min
"Two Returns to Water", "The Fire", and "The Other Sun" by Lauren Theresa
Two Returns to Water I’m so tired. I should be writing but instead I scan the room for spiders, the Adderall waxing off as the images...
- Dec 19, 2021
- 1 min
"Maybe we weren't meant to witness" by Melody Wang
magnolia’s cream-mottled cheek marking yet another bygone era plunked into the abyss as sorrow burrows into our roots, unfurling our...
- Dec 19, 2021
- 3 min
"Lucky", "Postponed", and "Canidae" by Kellie Scott-Reed
Lucky Reincarnation or the blue hope of heaven carry no promise. Maybe I will lay in my shell, and drift away slowly or be suddenly...
- Dec 19, 2021
- 2 min
"How do I look darling?" and "To kill a mockingbird" by Damien Posterino
How do I look darling? Everybody is a drag queen in life manicured in silky garbs or wax museum faces to suffocate their inner skin. On...
- Dec 19, 2021
- 2 min
“Live gold,” “besieged, a trapped mattress,” “indisputable reduction largest,”...by Joshua Martin
Live gold macro offensive line crowded swelt numbskull sit branch seek letter underwhelm harbinger of horizontal mania ironing t-shirt...
- Dec 19, 2021
- 1 min
"Deep Veins" by Molly Greer
His frail hands are pale like the full moon and I can trace the intricate pattern of deep veins beneath the surface, like a leaf from one...
- Dec 19, 2021
- 1 min
"More Noise Worth Writing Down", "Smothered by the Open Air"...by Richard LeDue
More Noise Worth Writing Down My son had too much screen time today, yet I still gave him my phone after his tablet died, reminding me...
- Nov 28, 2021
- 1 min
"Types of Damage, or, The Michelin Man Has a Bad Day" by Kyla Houbolt
Types of Damage, or The Michelin Man Has a Bad Day Tread Damage happens when someone ignores the warning "don't tread on me" having trod,...
- Nov 28, 2021
- 2 min
"Curse of the Firstborn" by Stephanie Parent
You were always reading stories Of girls who did what you could not The ones who searched for spindles, dug their Flesh in and pierced...
- Nov 28, 2021
- 2 min
"Spilled Abstractions", "Woodstock Glass", "Cavities", and "Floating" by Paul Ilechko
Spilled Abstractions Flowers emerge a seasonal blossoming finds them on the front lines that separate liquidity from gravity nature as we...
- Nov 28, 2021
- 3 min
"i love this shit", "john's wager", and "the cam girl from hell" by Adam Johnson
i love this shit holiday inn throwback red wine in plastic cups from a screw top bottle advertised as staff’s pick the place smells...
- Nov 28, 2021
- 2 min
"focal planes", "drawing conclusions", "ambiguous systems", "re: flux"...by Brian J. Alvarado
focal planes apostrophe precedes infinity with sunrise left between us there is fall when photosynthesis runs out of film exposure green...
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