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"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 4, 20241 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 4, 20242 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 4, 20241 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...
Feb 4, 20241 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 28, 20243 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 21, 20242 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 21, 20241 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 21, 20242 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 21, 20242 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 21, 20241 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 7, 20242 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 4, 20241 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 1, 20241 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 1, 20241 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...
Jan 1, 20242 min read


"Autumn Camping" by Kushal Poddar
Everyone has those travel bags. The doors of the car opens near the river. A bow boat plays a long lone note on the chordophone water....
Jan 1, 20241 min read


"The church joke" by Grant Shimmin
(South Africa, circa 1980) The laughter surrounded us Each member of the audience chronically infected as the joke plunged on towards its...
Jan 1, 20241 min read


"In the Limen, You", "Apropos or No (Ekphrastic on Deborah Remington’s Apropos..." by Koss
In the Limen, You In the limen you kept me between land and a wormy sea, What’s App green, always poised on the horizon of creamy notes,...
Jan 1, 20246 min read


"ars poetica, marked ‘TBD’" by W.C. Perry
W.C. Perry (they/them) is a writer from Chillicothe, Ohio. Their work has appeared in Meat for Tea, GRIFFEL, Taco Bell Quarterly, Night...
Dec 12, 20231 min read


"命運" by Sophia Lekeufack
命運 (mìngyùn) — the chinese translation of the english word “fate” The moon melted in my arms so I took her place in the sky. And soon my...
Dec 12, 20231 min read
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