"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...
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- Nov 13, 2022
- 1 min
"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, 2022
- 1 min
"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, 2022
- 2 min
"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, 2022
- 1 min
"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, 2022
- 1 min
"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, 2022
- 1 min
"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, 2022
- 2 min
"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, 2022
- 1 min
"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, 2022
- 1 min
"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, 2022
- 2 min
"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...
- Oct 30, 2022
- 1 min
"Decennial" by Kelsey Lister
Decennial The superstitions I practiced kept me safe. All of the pennies and grains of salt thrown. Every wishbone that broke in my favor...
- Oct 30, 2022
- 1 min
"Carnival" by Nolcha Fox
The magic mirrors distort her mind as she follows the words in her head to the merry-go- round where horses race silently to nowhere in...
- Oct 30, 2022
- 1 min
"Accubitus (noun)" & "Vampire Express" by Candice Kelsey
Accubitus (noun) is the state of lying next to another in bed without touching / according to an 1817 medical dictionary / the word...
- Oct 30, 2022
- 2 min
"Only Pink Satin Sheets Are Ineffable" & "The Earth and Our Dark Love" by Victoria Leigh Bennett
Only Pink Satin Sheets Are Ineffable Only pink satin sheets are ineffable And not hot pink, either, And not pale petal pink, But some...
- Oct 30, 2022
- 1 min
"The Motion of Pictures" by Chinaza
Let’s talk about blurred pictures Steaming cups of coffee now mud foggy Brown and white dots brushed into one Let’s talk about the...
- Oct 30, 2022
- 1 min
"A Tale of Granada" by Becky May
She'll catch a glimpse of herself in the glass, realise she's beautiful but know too that in her shadow a ragamuffin stray slinks down...
- Oct 30, 2022
- 2 min
"Daughters of" & "And sometimes, you are home." by Rebecca Romani
Daughters of We are the daughters Of sons of fathers from another land. We are the daughters of babbas who see in us the shadows of their...
- Oct 30, 2022
- 2 min
“The Violence of Sound” “Seduction” & “ Soundtrack” by Susan Richardson
The Violence of Sound Parcels of darkness take to the sky, storm warnings that strip skin from bones, swallowing the blood of entire...
- Oct 20, 2022
- 1 min
“Beneath the Darkness” & “His Last Return” by Lawrence Moore
Beneath the Darkness She walks the tree-lined evening way, scattering spectres of the past subordinated to her command. The animals...
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