"After First Frost" & "Subdivisions" by Sam Calhoun
After First Frost Let’s be unrealistic. I’ll pretend the armadillo isn’t dead in the ditch, it’s half burrowed hole beneath the hostas...
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Feb 42 min read
"Everybody Knows" & "Fatal Flaws" by Richard-Yves Sitoski
Everybody Knows In childhood father said I was indelicate, clumsy, straw bristles for digits and feet like oil drums. About these things...
Feb 41 min read
"Grasshopper" by Courtenay Schembri Gray
Within the cocktail of sound, the only thing I hear is a car tyre grinding my bones into a fine powder. To be exhaled by rigid...
Feb 43 min read
"This is Not Another Poem About the Moon", "Winter Landscape No. 3" & "Fifth Season" by Sarah Mills
This Is Not Another Poem About the Moon The next blue supermoon won’t come until 2037, and by then, we may be gone. Have you thought...
Feb 44 min read
"Finished in Dreams", "Hamlet In A Climate", & "A Globe" by Dale Cottingham
Finished in Dreams Deduction of the general from the specific is no longer needed, the evidence is in— The ice caps are melting, oceans...
Feb 41 min read
"Us Someday" by Jason Melvin
sitting poolside at a Dominican resort an older couple guessing mid-80’s shuffles by my wife turns to me and asks will that be us...
Feb 42 min read
"THE SHED WAS MADE IN THE IMAGE OF MAN - MY FATHERS LAST RESTING PLACE." by Zoe Davis
It was raining when I gutted the shed, crystal balls swinging from spider’s webs long vacated, crusty arachnid shells punctuating graves...
Feb 41 min read
"Night Portrait of The Fisher Building" by James Schwartz
Spires & Skyscrapers are Shrouded in November fog Rolling in with Techno from traffic from down river Obscuring the Boulevard &...
Feb 41 min read
"Eye Opener" by JD Clapp
He’d pushed his cart to the 6:00 a.m. bar, just down the dirty boulevard, to escape the cold, and the dark clouds building out east and...
Jan 283 min read
"Unboxed" & "Third-Person Self-Portrait" by Andrew Buckner
Unboxed As if returning a forgotten memory, like an abandoned child, Back to the banks of the subconscious which violently pushed it,...
Jan 212 min read
"The Curse" & "Summer Is Another Clichè" by Mikal Wix
The Curse In the smoke of his words comes a sign that we can’t sleep anymore under the calm dome of the moon when auburn wildfires race...
Jan 211 min read
"You Can't Know Unless You Murder Someone" by Matthew King
A lot of things, you found, were a lot like murdering someone. You tried very hard for a long time to avoid murdering anyone but then you...
Jan 212 min read
"Mercy" & "None Of It Lasted" by Mercedes Lawry
Mercy The only thing I remember from last night’s dream is the word mercy, spoken by a spectral figure. Was it my soul, crying out...
Jan 212 min read
"The Politics of Pockets", "Double Happy" & "Plum Jam" by Melinda Szymanik
The Politics of Pockets Skirts and dresses should be tight arses and hips for our enjoyment nobody wants layers for exercise these tight...
Jan 211 min read
"Sizing Up" by Heather Ann Pulido
I step on a scale and the numbers rise and rise and rise like my marks in primary, in secondary, in tertiary school. I wrap a measuring...
Jan 72 min read
"Meditation Garden" by Alexandra Burack
When they thought I had breast cancer, my grandmother worked a bare-handed half-acre to plant a meditation garden. Roses, mostly, antique...
Jan 41 min read
"My Addresses" by Bo Rahm
1: The Pigeon and the city Sure, let’s stand on the corner. Grow, Your beak demands bread, So grow. Whoever told you, lies, An architect...
Jan 11 min read
"The Vanishing Staircase" by John Grey
What do they mean? The staircase is here. First one foot on the step, then the other quickly slipping in behind. I'm ascending, not...
Jan 11 min read
"The Ghost in the Garden" by Olivia Graves
I’m not in my right mind. I can see, hear, and feel the air around me…but my thoughts have led me astray. I’m more unwell than I’d...
Jan 12 min read
"When I send my sexual abuse poems..." & "For my niece..." by Gretchen Filart
CW: Rape, sexual assault When I send my sexual abuse poems to Western magazines, they always end up rejected My poems are orphans in...
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