poetry 37/38

Dec 19, 20211 min read

"Between the Folds of Trauma" by Doryn Herbst

CW: Sexual abuse I listen to a survivor of incest telling an interviewer about how there were days when we would sit as a family for a TV...

Dec 19, 20213 min read

poetry

"blake's opinions over his digestif (strega)", "in the men's room"...by Adam Johnson

blake's opinions over his digestif (strega) they were sitting around after dinner his daughter told him that none of the girls in her...

Dec 19, 20212 min read

poetry

"Blue Fire", "Variation on Gwendolyn Brooks", and "Self-Portrait" by Ulyses Razo

Blue Fire When in the morning, the star grass Freezes like frostweed, I feel at home. Save for this brown button-up, which chokes Half my...

Dec 19, 20211 min read

poetry

"3 Winter Poems" by Penny Sarmada

How would they know? in the moments before freezing to death warmth overcomes you like a blanket of acceptance like an embrace of...

Dec 19, 20212 min read

poetry

"The hunter is haunted", " I had hoped you were hiding", and "Lamentations" by Melody Wang

The hunter is haunted by images of a home he once knew, destroyed — a deconstructed fox hole, a pile of sticks and stones patiently...

Dec 19, 20212 min read

literary fiction

"Handyman Special" and "Cracking Eggs" by Matt McGuirk

Handyman Special Handyman Special: it’s just right for someone with a few skills, some time on their hands and some elbow grease. That...

Dec 19, 20211 min read

micro poetry

"Two Returns to Water", "The Fire", and "The Other Sun" by Lauren Theresa

Two Returns to Water I’m so tired. I should be writing but instead I scan the room for spiders, the Adderall waxing off as the images...

Dec 19, 20211 min read

poetry

"Maybe we weren't meant to witness" by Melody Wang

magnolia’s cream-mottled cheek marking yet another bygone era plunked into the abyss as sorrow burrows into our roots, unfurling our...

Dec 19, 20213 min read

poetry

"Lucky", "Postponed", and "Canidae" by Kellie Scott-Reed

Lucky Reincarnation or the blue hope of heaven carry no promise. Maybe I will lay in my shell, and drift away slowly or be suddenly...

Dec 19, 20212 min read

poetry

"How do I look darling?" and "To kill a mockingbird" by Damien Posterino

How do I look darling? Everybody is a drag queen in life manicured in silky garbs or wax museum faces to suffocate their inner skin. On...

Dec 19, 20212 min read

poetry

“Live gold,” “besieged, a trapped mattress,” “indisputable reduction largest,”...by Joshua Martin

Live gold macro offensive line crowded swelt numbskull sit branch seek letter underwhelm harbinger of horizontal mania ironing t-shirt...

Dec 19, 20211 min read

poetry

"Deep Veins" by Molly Greer

His frail hands are pale like the full moon and I can trace the intricate pattern of deep veins beneath the surface, like a leaf from one...

Dec 19, 20211 min read

poetry

"More Noise Worth Writing Down", "Smothered by the Open Air"...by Richard LeDue

More Noise Worth Writing Down My son had too much screen time today, yet I still gave him my phone after his tablet died, reminding me...

Nov 28, 20211 min read

poetry

"Types of Damage, or, The Michelin Man Has a Bad Day" by Kyla Houbolt

Types of Damage, or The Michelin Man Has a Bad Day Tread Damage happens when someone ignores the warning "don't tread on me" having trod,...

Nov 28, 20212 min read

poetry

"Curse of the Firstborn" by Stephanie Parent

You were always reading stories Of girls who did what you could not The ones who searched for spindles, dug their Flesh in and pierced...

Nov 28, 20212 min read

poetry

"Spilled Abstractions", "Woodstock Glass", "Cavities", and "Floating" by Paul Ilechko

Spilled Abstractions Flowers emerge a seasonal blossoming finds them on the front lines that separate liquidity from gravity nature as we...

Nov 28, 20213 min read

poetry

"i love this shit", "john's wager", and "the cam girl from hell" by Adam Johnson

i love this shit holiday inn throwback red wine in plastic cups from a screw top bottle advertised as staff’s pick the place smells...

Nov 28, 20212 min read

poetry

"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...

Nov 28, 20212 min read

poetry

"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, 20213 min read

poetry

“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...