poetry 32/38

Apr 17, 20221 min read

"70 chairs", "sunflower seeds", & "how to fly a kite for Persephone" by Annie Cowell

70 chairs history hangs in this square it rests in the iron and bronze and loiters in between the memories of the abandoned furniture,...

Apr 17, 20221 min read

poetry

"Misfit" by Nolcha Fox

I’m an eccentric oddball, not even my attire fits in. I dress in the dark in my wardrobe, doors shut and eyes closed. Groping in shadow,...

Apr 17, 20222 min read

poetry

"Albatross", "Store", & "The Devil Comes Around In the Winter" by Rami Obeid

Albatross And what came from all that we had / I stay cocooned in piano keys, waiting for someone to come and bring music to me, even...

Apr 17, 20221 min read

poetry

"crystal mountain ramble" by w v sutra

voices in the hill thunder missing souls gone from these rocks strangers long gone with their tennis and their cocktails their pedigreed...

Apr 17, 20221 min read

poetry

"Everything in Flames" by CL Bledsoe and Michael Gushue

Like lightning, something that flashes but no one remembers where it struck— that fucker will burn If you can find the right match. I’m...

Apr 17, 20221 min read

poetry

"If this is the Pantheon" by Louise Mather

This earth is upended, and before and before, I am wrenching your bones for blue sequins from the glass roof, icicles folded in ribbons,...

Apr 17, 20221 min read

poetry

"Handling" & "Duologue" by Sanjeev Sethi

Handling Bind up myself in a bubble wrap of poetic warmth and make my moves on the roadway of reality. When the air balls puncture: the...

Apr 17, 20222 min read

poetry

"Satori in a Yaris", "Complications", & "Us, Separated" by Christopher P. Mooney

Satori in a Yaris We drank until closing again last night, then, unable to get a room, discussed Kerouac and Plath before deciding to...

Apr 3, 20221 min read

poetry

"Rogue" by Katy Naylor

I always found it funny that Rogue’s skin held so much power that her touch could take you whole knock you out suck you dry The thought...

Apr 3, 20221 min read

poetry

"Rien de rien" & "Alice" by Annick Yerem

Rien de rien You now believe you know me. You send letters laced with praise, stories about your good daughter. But I remember I was like...

Apr 3, 20222 min read

poetry

"Sweet Corn", "Memory Is a Broken Disguise", & "My Father Is a Human Curse" by Anastasia DiFonzo

Sweet Corn You were tough as beetroot, cracked skin and bloodstains, seeped through my guts until my waste was only you. I was loose...

Apr 3, 20222 min read

flash fiction

"Cheap Beer, Madden and Hold 'em", "Active Shooter 101"... by Matt McGuirk

CW: references to violence Cheap Beer, Madden and Hold ‘em How would I have known there was so much more, just a kid with a 30 rack of...

Apr 3, 20222 min read

poetry

"Tuesdays in February", "Why do storms have names", & "Council Estates"...by Sean Smith

Tuesdays in February Distracted, I stare blankly out the window- The frosted glass obscures The view I'm not even looking at. People pass...

Apr 3, 20222 min read

prose poetry

"The Balloon Artist," & "The Farmer and the Alien" by Tanya Sangpun Thamkruphat

The Balloon Artist For many years, I was a clown traveling and performing with an infamous circus company. I enjoyed sparking smiles and...

Apr 3, 20221 min read

poetry

"To a Photograph of Someone I Don't Know Named Orene" & "Recipe For Losing" by Kyla Houbolt

To a Photograph of Someone I Don't Know Named Orene Orene your name makes me want to sit down at an oilcloth covered table and eat...

Apr 3, 20222 min read

poetry

"Hedone", "The Cruise" and "Little Beast Upside Down" by Joan García Viltró

Hedone I take pleasure in telling the truth, in not telling all the truth, in not telling lies, in hiding so everyone can have a good...

Apr 3, 20224 min read

flash fiction

"Gerty", "Spit", and "Blush" by Arden Hunter

Gerty He had a binder clip holding his hat together. It was one of the first things people noticed when they met him, though most were...

Apr 3, 20221 min read

poetry

"Fear", "Forgiveness", "Scent of Sorrow", & "Rose Petals in Your Mouth" by Chella Courington

Fear It isn’t the tumor then but the tumor remembered cut from the breast the breast chiseled from the bone rising in dreams or at the...

Apr 3, 20222 min read

poetry

"Former Lives In Last Night's Dream", "Kite", & "The Girl Who Spoke Swords" by Tim Moder

Former Lives In Last Night’s Dream I follow her through candlelit mazes. I watch her bathe herself in flowers, painting her wings one...

Apr 3, 20221 min read

poetry

"1984" by Lorraine Murphy

I bet I'll forget the clammy shirt collar, sheepskin lined coat and brown angola school jumper, uncle-close to my skin in the September...