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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

poetry

"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

poetry

"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

poetry

“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

fantasy

"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

poetry

"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

poetry

"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

poetry

"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...

Jan 2, 20222 min read

poetry

"Charlie Chaplin and Me", "Courage", "The Love of My Life"...by Milton P. Ehrlich

Charlie Chaplin and Me When I was a kid, I thought we were related. I walked like him and, like him, didn’t speak, and could pantomime...

Jan 2, 20221 min read

poetry

"Trampoline" and "Pinstripes" by Jason Melvin

Trampoline tattered safety net ripped sliding off its poles in no condition to stop an errant jumper rusted springs rusted...

Jan 2, 20221 min read

poetry

"The Tequila Shot", "Lilypad", and "Three Musketears" by Victoria Punch

The Tequila Shot ~ long lick of the tail feather flick tapering tail like a grass blade glass blade shoot of a cry and a gulp and a green...

Jan 2, 20223 min read

poetry

"For Butch Baristas and Platform Docs," "Prayer for Justice,"... by Evelyn Bauer

For Butch Baristas and Platform Docs My friend hand-crafts bulldog harnesses the style you always said would look great after you got top...

Jan 2, 20222 min read

poetry

"For the love of physics", "'The death of the dragonfly", and "Gold and silver" by Shiksha Dheda

For the love of Physics Oh my little vector, how I follow thee -hither to thither- thou art better than any scalar. Your resistance...

Jan 2, 20222 min read

poetry

"I Loved You Differently But I Loved You the Most" and "My Buyer’s Hesitation..." by Karlo Sevilla

I Loved You Differently but I Loved You the Most Remember that summer workshop when I alone defended the whole of your second draft? My...

Jan 2, 20221 min read

poetry

"Fishing the Dawn" and "Nighttide, Santa Marta Bay" by Lorraine Caputo

Fishing the Dawn Day again breaks grey, briny mist rising from the wild sea. Into the froth a quartet wades, clad only in thin briefs,...

Jan 2, 20221 min read

poetry

"Nights Like These" by Kyla Houbolt

Awoke at 12:12 on the 12/12/21 and thought about words and how dogs laugh where we can see it and cats where we do not. The way ice cream...

Jan 2, 20222 min read

poetry

"Kendall Roy, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down" by Justin Karcher & Kristin Garth

I don’t know what the fuck is wrong with me every night too much birthday in the big city the craziest year of my life & Kendall Roy that...

Dec 19, 20211 min read

poetry

"Two Shades of Green" and "My Favourite Number" by Lawrence Moore

Two Shades of Green Hopeful soul stands alone, calling to fate with come-hither eyes. Self-abandons at opening credits, never reviews the...

Dec 19, 20211 min read

poetry

"Sexual Tension At The Mormon Teenage Nativity" by Kristin Garth

A Bible brond woman blows out unruly brunette hair, darkens your virgin eyelashes, light lengths, “who knew those were there.” Unholy...

Dec 19, 20211 min read

poetry

"tanka for the stray cats outside my window" by Jack Apollo Hartley

porchlight-lit lovers, they spoon tabby over white— dream their own warm home. let the sun burn out, freeze black, so as not to...