"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...
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Feb 20, 20221 min read
"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, 20222 min read
"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, 20221 min read
"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, 20222 min read
"Promise", "Mind of Fire", "Moonfall", and "Unpublished" by Alexander Etheridge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, 20222 min read
"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, 20221 min read
"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, 20221 min read
"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, 20222 min read
"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, 20221 min read
"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, 20222 min read
"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, 20223 min read
"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, 20222 min read
"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, 20221 min read
"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, 20222 min read
"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...
Feb 6, 20224 min read
“Cracked Hands and Frost Heaves”, “The Wood Stack”... by Matt McGuirk
“Cracked Hands and Frost Heaves” Cracked hands and frost heaves, bookends to the winter season. Snow etching its way onto the map means...
Feb 6, 20222 min read
"Cosmology of Love" by Finch F.W.
Love, or something that sits warm. Casting chromatic shadows. Cools to harden, to still. Dark room. Fire higher to melt. Breath to stoke....
Jan 2, 20221 min read
"My Grandmother, Beyond Her Window" by David J Hersher
My grandmother never said the words I love you, speaking instead in Blackjack for taffy on the flowered davenport in a living room free...
Jan 2, 20221 min read
"Response to Nikki Giovanni’s 'Crutches'" by Beth Mulcahy
she said women aren’t allowed to need but we aren’t supposed to be strong either so we develop self-destructive rituals men call...
Jan 2, 20221 min read
"The Delivery Van You Drove Didn't Come With Warning Lights" by Bianca Grace
CW: Childhood sexual abuse, death Chasie wasn’t the only game you took fancy to, hidden away from grownups who partied in the dining room...
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