"Macbeth and Hamlet down the Haçienda" by Ivor Daniel
a drum a drum and bass and bass and bass deep reverb echoes off my face my cranium thin vibrating party walls I knew this...
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- Feb 20, 2022
- 1 min
"The Wobbling Moon" by Merril D. Smith
The world courses on arhythmic heartbeats, now too fast, now too slow-- vulture-winged clouds swoop, then fly, circling just beyond...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 2 min
"to stand still and yearn to go", "good for you", and "sunlight incarnate" by Tamara Bašić
to stand still and yearn to go you sit in silence, ground moving beneath the soles of your shoes, beneath the tracks; cities rushing by,...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 3 min
"Poem for People Who Say They Don’t Pray", "Poem for Sylvia Plath"... by Nicole Tallman
Poem for People Who Say They Don’t Pray This is a poem for those who say they don’t pray. Poem is a prayer. If you write, you pray. I...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 2 min
"Essential Services" by Ankit Raj
My cousin, the know-it-all procrastinator, Would rather host barbecues in his backyard Than sit at the shop his father bleeds his pension...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 2 min
"post-getting ghosted" by ongoing vision
CW: vomiting The seat on window view was left empty by a man, coeval as me, moved to the middle row and kissed a woman who sat alone. I...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 1 min
"Letter Left Inside 'Sweetheart of the Rodeo' " by Kyle Vaughn
I want to lie with you on a hotel mattress and listen to a turntable play Sweetheart of the Rodeo. You should hear this country music,...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 2 min
"Inadequacy" and "Attic Alcove" by Beth Mulcahy
A note from the publisher: our web server is terrible, and the formatting of Beth's first poem, "Inadequacy". is very important. It...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 1 min
"Passing by Old Highway 17 Road" by Richard LeDue
It reminds me of telling someone they'll always be something, until they die- the old road wrinkled with cracks, while the new highway...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 2 min
"Promise", "Mind of Fire", "Moonfall", and "Unpublished" by Alexander Etheridge
Promise I bring you almonds and apricots, fresh dates and country oranges. You have stitched your name in the very world around me, I see...
- Feb 6, 2022
- 2 min
"Seal and Lock" by Jesse Miksic
Pump Station The sound of the clock Becomes the sound of the water This fluid moves like Color through the brain This hour’s cruel and...
- Feb 6, 2022
- 1 min
"Summer Bonfire" and "A Space I Cannot Fill" by Helen Openshaw
Summer Bonfire The smell of wood smoke pops the air, Engulfing the late summer evening in bursts. I watch the sparks of fire soaring,...
- Feb 6, 2022
- 1 min
"Kinda-Cowboy Wisdom" by Alana Greene
All four windows down, burlap mullet in the wind. Sun-sweat glimmering across your paperback skin. Face like motel heaven, lips a bright...
- Feb 6, 2022
- 2 min
"Ode to Rosalind Franklin", "Origin", and "Head Lines" by Lily Rose Kosmicki
Ode to Rosalind Franklin I have three letters D, N and A I believe in them but there is more than flat symbol acronyms and chemicals...
- Feb 6, 2022
- 1 min
"Florida" by Adam Johnson
Flight delayed. Just kidding I’m at the Marriott. There is this dad who looks like Cat Stevens with AUD who has two teenage sons and the...
- Feb 6, 2022
- 2 min
"The Unfilled Branch" and "You In the Pond" by Alex Carrigan
The Unfilled Branch My father tells me that there was an Indigenous woman who married into my family back when my family was divided...
- Feb 6, 2022
- 3 min
"Hospice Conference" and "The Me-Bomb" by Jesse Hilson
HOSPICE CONFERENCE Remember second grade on the field for gym and you saw your mother’s car drive by on Brown Street? She was running an...
- Feb 6, 2022
- 2 min
"Edge", "How Not to Stargaze", and "Of Trees" by Marie Little
Edge We will run prints in the sand down to the rock pools come up jagged with emptiness. We will walk the rounded wall of lobster pots,...
- Feb 6, 2022
- 1 min
"open book" by Ilana Drake
sometimes i think of you & what it feels like to be so far away we used to read on the bookstore floor, escaping from eating lunch in the...
- Feb 6, 2022
- 2 min
"Midnight Clad", "Refuge", and "84 Charing Cross" by Ben Riddle
Midnight Clad It is late. The night sky is a cool blue, its air carries to us whispers of jazz threading the needle of a secondhand vinyl...
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