"focal planes", "drawing conclusions", "ambiguous systems", "re: flux"...by Brian J. Alvarado
focal planes apostrophe precedes infinity with sunrise left between us there is fall when photosynthesis runs out of film exposure green...
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- Nov 28, 2021
- 2 min
"Born to Rue", "Homesick, Or Sick Of Home?", "Obelus", "Photographer"...by Hibah Shabkhez
Born To Rue Chimneyed houses set against a red sun Frown at the morning, as under cover Of distant car-humming, things that hover By lorn...
- Nov 28, 2021
- 3 min
“Establishing Shot”, “Abjection”, “The Oracle”, “Nine of Swords”...by Joey Gould
Establishing Shot [the camera glares up in circles & cuts away to somebody crying, washing up without their glasses on. Their sink near a...
- Nov 28, 2021
- 1 min
"Mare", "Gods and Prophets", and "Uninvited" by Katrina Kaye
Mare Time whispers a voice honeyed jasmine thick with moss. She has grown old against the evening sun, enveloped in the dust of dusk. In...
- Nov 28, 2021
- 2 min
"This bathroom is really a spy room" and "Firetrucking Brickhead" by Jason Melvin
This bathroom is really a spy room As I shut the door, it’s evident. I can hear the entire bar, every conversation. A cacophony of...
- Nov 14, 2021
- 2 min
"One Won’t Hurt" and "Song" by Joe Haward
One Won’t Hurt Five seconds temptation to regret. Ten years building home/family/pride/somebodiness foundations only 40% proof. Flooded...
- Nov 14, 2021
- 3 min
"irreconcilable breakdown", "the falling out between Kaye Swiss, Esq."...by Adam Johnson
irreconcilable breakdown my wife told me to take a bath then she handed me a folding knife and told me to do it right this time you see...
- Nov 14, 2021
- 1 min
"A Walk into Light", "All the Skin I Have", and "Making Jelly" by Marie Little
A Walk into Light Midnight trails between my toes, I pace the garden’s perimeter, as if mapping a treasure hunt, squirrelling eggs. This...
- Nov 14, 2021
- 2 min
"The Toll of Fame" and "Repository, or a New Prayer" by Jared Povanda
The Toll of Fame Loki has traveled to Iceland again. Loki is not, technically, at home in Iceland, but it feels right. Better than most...
- Nov 14, 2021
- 2 min
"All Things Are Poison, And Nothing Is", "Dwarf Planet"...by Hibah Shabkhez
All Things Are Poison, And Nothing Is The sleek silhouettes and tips of their words Dropped like wrappers on footpaths in the night Go...
- Nov 14, 2021
- 2 min
"Sister" and "The Healing Clock" by David Estringel
Sister How regally you sit in funerary black— a touch of blush, collar, torn, and lips, naked as the day you were born— by the wedding...
- Nov 14, 2021
- 2 min
"map (of) rust", "my morning mother", and "anxiously at the wound" by john compton
map (of) rust i rode the wings of the great beast: you. in time, in turn, your hopeless melody— you sit in the dandelion skulls with...
- Nov 14, 2021
- 1 min
"She Wears a Blue Bandana" and "House of India #60" by Glen Armstrong
She Wears a Blue Bandana and uses the phrase “on the lamb” to describe most anything: Her legal status. Her state of mind. Her...
- Oct 31, 2021
- 1 min
"thing heaven" and "forest before daybreak" by finn carpenter
thing heaven piled errata skinned bones and erotic mystery mags hissing spilling spitting and crawling mounded too tall objects...
- Oct 31, 2021
- 1 min
"Days of 2021" by Matthew James Hodgson
Dare not I yet impose an unfit form, Dreaming away at the two photographs Compared (three years apart) with a heavy head. Across the...
- Oct 31, 2021
- 2 min
"Salem Song", "Viable Organ", and "The Weight of Skipping Stones" by Laura Ingram
Salem Song October’s losing its dull yellow teeth mother of field mice, queen of chrysanthemum dead flowers clutched in clenched fist in...
- Oct 31, 2021
- 1 min
"petrology" and "acrostic for human-lion relations" by Liam Burke
petrology maybe you determined inert at flatline maybe topography never the way you wanted flat water table immersing your mouth ...
- Oct 31, 2021
- 1 min
"This Happens To Us All, But This Time It Happened To Me" by Camille Lewis
I tell my therapist that I connected with someone. No, I mean we really, unequivocally, like, went together, I tell her. Now they leave...
- Oct 31, 2021
- 1 min
"lease renewal", velocity of grief", and "coda" by William Davis
lease renewal what can we lay upon our hands those husking calliopes, generous mouth that leans to yes & tremor, the fold and flutter...
- Oct 17, 2021
- 2 min
"Eulogy" and "Stay here as long as you can" by Ryan Westmoreland
Eulogy As big as his mammoth body is; Pot-bellied and 6’2”, I still think his presence is bigger. Highly Opinionated, Gap-Toothed,...
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