"Pickle Tub", "Moussaka" & "Sea-Witch: Coney Island" by Chiara Di Lello
Pickle Tub I’ve got a heart like a pickle tub you can turn it over and drum on it for change it’s full of living things, it’s good for...
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- Jun 25
- 1 min
"Life Jacket" by John Dorroh
Your father passed into thin air two years ago today, left you treading in salt water and frost. It was before the fuses detonated on...
- Jun 11
- 1 min
"Loss Regained" by Deron Eckert
This is not like the other times, of initial refusal, eventual acceptance, inevitable treatment. Unlike the times of womb, throat, and...
- Jun 11
- 2 min
"wraparound" & "mothering" by Zoe Gianfrancesco
wraparound maybe it’s in the breath of It, how even menthol-wrapped, He can put life to it with a well-placed sigh, our arc a paper-thin...
- Jun 11
- 1 min
"Manic Depression (A Boy Can Dream)" by Lachie Kairo
So then, you take a toothpick, some tweezers of course you don’t want to clean your teeth, you just want to tear yourself apart. Building...
- Jun 11
- 1 min
"Methuselah Remembered" by Simon Leonard
In your kitchen it will always be late summer, Bessie Smith churning through the blues, some piano fluttering to keep up. A CD whirs...
- Jun 11
- 2 min
"Necromancer in Anthropocene" by Terry Trowbridge
Tired of technocracy clear-cutting the valleys, a mountainside necromancer brings home the teeth from several steam shovel buckets,...
- Jun 11
- 1 min
"In Philadelphia, My Love" & "An Ode to Sin" by Pierce Leon Vencer
In Philadelphia, My Love We turned the streets of Philadelphia into fighting arenas when we’d drag our issues from jazz bars and take...
- Jun 11
- 1 min
"when we lived on the moon" by Sally Armstrong
when we lived on the moon we danced to techno wearing spacesuits caught space rocks in tiny glass jars we laughed loudly in a dark sky...
- Jun 11
- 1 min
"Be Nice To Your Cremation Technician" by Ly Faulk
Bathe your body with excellent fatty foods so that you burn more quickly. Go soft in the joints and hard places. Your cremation...
- Jun 11
- 1 min
"Reclamation Of A Land Once Stolen" & "Only A Name" by Akleyiaha R.
Reclamation Of A Land Once Stolen Her dress flows. Silk of mulberry heavied by tears. Yampee-eyed, cracked lips in the yolk of day. She...
- Jun 11
- 2 min
"FOXFIRE 7", "The Worst Things I've Done" & "Perspective/Waterfront" by Daniel Miller
FOXFIRE 7 Mama said I was born in the bathtub. Came right out the drain when she was getting ready to wash. The creek was low, that day,...
- Jun 11
- 2 min
"Puffed Up", "In Tandem" & "Meditation at North Beach Park, Burlington" by Anne Whitehouse
PUFFED UP From wax, Leonardo formed a doughy mass, and when it softened, he shaped it into delicate animals filled with air. He blew into...
- Jun 11
- 1 min
"Imprinted" & "Heartache" by Edward Anki
Imprinted It’s something about time the torturous divine this image of tiny lizards scurrying ancient stone walls with which I remained...
- Jun 11
- 2 min
"The sort of thing that wouldn’t happen in the office" by Leia Butler
Fuck, he's left the milk out, I can see it behind his head. And this meeting is due to last an hour, and I want to tell him, I cannot...
- Jun 11
- 1 min
"It's April and" by Katherine Schmidt
It’s April and there’s sticky apple blood on my chin, a rock in my pocket, and I’m simultaneously 48 and 12 years old: ready to explore...
- May 28
- 2 min
"An Interpretation of Why Caged Birds Sing", "Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever"... by Matthew Johnson
I know what the caged bird feels, alas! - Paul Laurence Dunbar, “Sympathy” An Interpretation of Why Caged Birds Sing - After Paul...
- May 28
- 1 min
"Dreadlock Man" & "Mimir" by Jordan Joe
Dreadlock Man Dreadlock man fi die alone As the slender figures with eyeless faces Pass without rhythm in their strides rightleftright...
- May 28
- 1 min
"BOHEMIAN" by Frank Njugi
There is something to be said about a black man who might make himself a bioethicist & clone his shame to be something preserved in...
- May 28
- 3 min
“Dollar store Conor Oberst with a Bandcamp account”….by Patricia Kusumaningtyas
Dollar store Conor Oberst with a Bandcamp account The Satanic Bible on your mantle and the Tao Te Ching on your nightstand – you dread,...
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