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"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
"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, 20221 min read
"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...
Jan 2, 20222 min read
"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
"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
"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...
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, 20211 min read
"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, 20213 min read
"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, 20212 min read
"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, 20211 min read
"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
"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, 20212 min read
"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
"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, 20211 min read
"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, 20213 min read
"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
“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, 20212 min read
"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
"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...
Dec 19, 20211 min read
"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, 20211 min read
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