"Genome for Commercial Taste" by Christopher Collingwood
My dreams were served with Cabernet – seduction by commercial taste, peeling vanity off the apple’s core, taking away unwanted skin,...
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Nov 27, 20222 min read
"Wandering Still", "A Summer Road", "The Tower"...by Frances Koziar
Wandering Still The waves roll against an empty shore, each one strong and steady and painful, the sand grating like life across my skin....
Nov 27, 20221 min read
"One-Legged man" by Ken Tomaro
it’s just a different sunrise in the fall the sun is bright but muted the clouds are dense and low and I am thinking about the future...
Nov 27, 20221 min read
"glib boy-king" by Kyle Denner
Kyle Denner is from Tucson, AZ. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Blue Collar Review, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, and Manastash.
Nov 13, 20221 min read
“at once, I feel it all suspending” by Mikayla Elias
at once, I feel it all suspending permanent arteries the weight of helplessness captured in foreign memories not unlike a dream come back...
Nov 13, 20221 min read
"Have Mercy" by Gabriel Hart
We prefer to receive when we only encounter a pair of wide eyes an invitation on fire to smother a Gate beckoning with a glare off the...
Nov 13, 20222 min read
"Journey through Dead Woman Hollow" by Taylor Mallay
Dead Woman Hollow is a hiking trail in Pennsylvania. In 1988, a woman named Rebecca Wight was murdered there. The morning of the 4th, I...
Nov 13, 20221 min read
"you can stop visiting my dreams now" by Ọpéyemí Ọlájùwọ́n
you can stop visiting my dreams now for Corinth, when I look into spaces to fill up a void that is more vacant than a bullet fleshed into...
Nov 13, 20221 min read
"the hope" by Ilana Drake
when the plane landed & i walked through the airport, i felt the way i do when i enter the apartment & my parents crowd me with hugs:...
Nov 13, 20221 min read
"Bird Watching" by Indranil Ghosh
I ran into a kiwi bird while hiking up the sledge track, early morning. It had news from my dad. He says he has made friends with Chester...
Nov 13, 20221 min read
"Brevity" & "Self-portrait as a Dead Gray Squirrel" by Jess Levens
Brevity Capsized pyramid, shake the details down. Distilled to facts and nothing more, briefly smudged across the page; dissect in parts...
Nov 13, 20221 min read
"Swell" by Michael Chin
That summer we took your father’s boat Off the coast for sunsets we smoked and called it seaweed. We locked toes, gritty with sand and...
Nov 13, 20222 min read
"Doll Country" & "Frogspawn" by Damon Hubbs
Doll Country In doll country we are building a miniature replica of our home, a nutshell study of rooms and hallways forensically scaled...
Oct 30, 20221 min read
"Jungle Life" by Elizabeth Schmermund
Outside we watch tender lime leaves unfurl, new life. A small hand reaches for the copper-threaded can, pours cold water right from the...
Oct 30, 20221 min read
"Washing Day" by Gavin Turner
After, thoughts, The sweating swoosh of infatuation, The gripping, ripping, ride Rolling cotton tides beneath us, Its depth unknowing We...
Oct 30, 20221 min read
"Tonight" by Jason Melvin
CW: blood Tonight, she rips the skin off the top of her hand exposing each phalange She achieves this through addition not subtraction A...
Oct 30, 20222 min read
"A Thousand Iterations of Yellow" by Karen Grose
Do you see me? Alone, I am resolute Towering sunflowers, Gran’s churned butter dripping from cobs of field-picked corn, Post-it notes and...
Oct 30, 20221 min read
"The Gardeners" by L.M. Cole
A mother’s hands are black from planting bulbs in the crumbling soil of autumn. A bulb is a promise of tomorrow. Mothers do the planting...
Oct 30, 20221 min read
"On the Heaviness of Summer Evenings" by Catheryne Gagnon
Some days when my body feels heavy, I leave my heart, dripping on the countertop and walk out into honeyed light, cicada song still thick...
Oct 30, 20222 min read
"5am, 179", "geode", & "the bell tolls (fidelity)" by Brianna Cunliffe
5 am, I79 wreck. talk radio. hope-wrangled holidays in scotch-tape and latex gloves, sailing incubators we ride these ill winds...
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