"Gabi | Night" By Sylvia Santiago
Sylvia Santiago's work has appeared/will appear in Bureau of Complaint, Crow & Cross Keys, Cutbow Quarterly, Honey Literary, and...
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Sep 18, 20222 min read
“My Brain Tells Lies and My Body Is At War” by Margot Stillings
Content Warning: this poem references mental disorders, disordered eating, and sexual assault. that afternoon the therapist said two...
Sep 18, 20221 min read
“The Gathering” by Leila Tualla
I’d like to gather my children and their children’s children and we’d meet by the shore at dawn. We would watch the horizon burn as the...
Sep 18, 20221 min read
“Lawrence Welk Rerun” by Timothy Direlle Batson
He says we’re just bags of meat, metabolizing until we die no meaning, no purpose no meaning, no purpose no meaning, no purpose unless we...
Sep 18, 20221 min read
“Virgo Season” by Jarrod Campbell
Now onto nights when the silvery moon extends its monochrome to anything pale and prepared to reflect, absorb, and forecast the cooler...
Sep 18, 20222 min read
“Acting My Age”& “A Momentary Crossing” by Bonnie Meekums
Acting My Age I am the crone who craves Naked skin against mine Who yearns giving in to gravity The safe, strong cradle Of a lover’s hold...
Sep 18, 20224 min read
"Man Turns Forty (Throws Pity Party)" by Benjamin Drevlow
Content Warning for references to suicide, child abuse, and self harm. My wife tried to arrange an escape room for my fortieth birthday...
Sep 18, 20221 min read
"Worms and Gods" by Sebastian Vice
We The human-ape A god-like misfortune A worm-like manifestation Stricken with consciousness Dangling from decaying bags of skin...
Sep 18, 20222 min read
"Ornithomancy with Rain & Flying Geese" & "How I Wish To Be Fine Crystal" by Cassandra Whitaker
Ornithomancy with Rain & Flying Geese The sky empties leaden rain. Its story falls apart on its way to earth. Its story is the same sad...
Sep 18, 20222 min read
"Our Species: A Bio-Note of Homo Sapiens", "Birthplacing"...by Yuan Changming
Our Species: A Bio-Note of Homo Sapiens So, we distinguished ourselves as Bipedalists eating cooked foods So, we’ve become frenzy Makers...
Sep 5, 20221 min read
“I have called you by name, you are mine” by Kelsi Lindus
Tune in—it's prime time for mammals with a prefrontal cortex and anxiety disorders on a planet that is burning. Mammal from mamma,...
Sep 5, 20221 min read
"Life in the Bathroom" by Nolcha Fox
Life in the Bathroom Response poem to “From the Women’s Restroom” by Kaitlyn Spees A sign above the women’s bathroom sink tells me Water...
Sep 5, 20226 min read
"Jellyfish", "Fern, Essentially", "Writing My Will Without You"...by Robin Kinzer
CW: sexual harassment, chronic/potentially fatal illness, and pornography/pin-up girl culture Jellyfish After the really dirty and...
Sep 5, 20221 min read
"A Tub Poem", "Tied Down", "The Last War"..by Tom Mazur
A Tub Poem I was watching this poem float by and thinking it was painted by Van Gogh I don’t know Or was it the women going to and fro...
Sep 5, 20221 min read
"You Cry For Your Dearest" by Mark McConville
We share moments of grace And we love the bones of the bird That flies around our blooming fantasy Collecting paper notes written in your...
Sep 5, 20221 min read
“Love Me Some Coyote”(After 'Coyote Dream II' by Karen Pierce Gonzalez)..by Kyla Houbolt
Love Me Some Coyote (After 'Coyote Dream II' by Karen Pierce Gonzalez) Coyote is a friend of mine, at least, he told me he was, but how...
Sep 5, 20221 min read
“A Lesson in Nonsense (Re)defined” by Rachel Canwell
Grab a pen, write this down. Ink it before you forget. Nonsense is: The things people shout when they know they are wrong. The things...
Sep 5, 20221 min read
"Snapshot" by Karen Pierce Gonzalez
I am barefoot and hungry on the forest fringe of a black and white dream over-exposed shadows film my skin as I squeeze out of a tightly...
Sep 5, 20222 min read
“8 Short Poems” by Marc Isaac Potter
Each Step Each Step The Ancient Ones step through me. Each step, So fresh No step was ever taken. Purity Two dozen Purity Roses. The...
Sep 5, 20221 min read
"Gold Watch Fever" & "Corporate Restructuring" by R. Gerry Fabian
Gold Watch Fever In progress, anonymous dog-eared milksop employees pigeonhole discreet chagrin so as to excavate spine-tingling...
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