"Violoncello" & "That Scary Feeling Of The Being A Freed Balloon" by Kushal Poddar
Violoncello In a Wednesday subway train, undulating, the fresh boyfriend tucks his girl in the U his hands make supported against the...
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Nov 26, 20231 min read
"Produce" by Devon Neal
“In the produce department, everything is dying, but there are two things still living— can you name those two things?” The district...
Nov 26, 20232 min read
"I Hate Dreams", "Green”, "The Last Miracle of St. Nicholas", & "Body and Sol" by Aaron G.H.
I Hate Dreams A synaptic celluloid that burns after every frame. Vivid realities inhabited/ experienced Constructed curiosities unwanted/...
Nov 12, 20231 min read
"Farmers’ Market" by Luís Costa
instead of allowing myself to be happy I keep trying to find you exploring the tight curves of bell peppers, your laugh echoing within...
Nov 12, 20232 min read
"Grandma’s Letter to Her Son in the Army" by Ifunanya Georgia Ezeano
Maybe this is not a good day to write you but I will write you anyway. My son, you are a boy. Your heart is made like cheese, it goes...
Nov 12, 20231 min read
"Slant" by Marc Isaac Potter
The slant The revocation of his voice We are revoking his voice from society His poet's piercing and longing Song of how things really...
Nov 12, 20231 min read
"Distant Rumble" & "Get Your Perfection Off My Lawn!" by Peter Kaczmarczyk
Distant Rumble The child could hear the highway As he lay awake at night The distant rumble filled him with wonder Where were they all...
Nov 12, 20232 min read
"I’m worried that I’m not following/the instructions" & "There is nothing about..." by Cailey Tin
There is nothing about the dirt-smeared past that debates can’t rise from but people are now distracted with the argument that this...
Nov 12, 20231 min read
"Incidental Passengers" by Andrea Damic
they journey together, on the breaths of winter blinking under streetlights, in twilight intricate, in their remarkable essence it’s...
Nov 12, 20232 min read
"Darling (Sometimes)", "Darling (Always)" & "Rain" by Allison Thung
Darling (Always) What lies behind those inscrutable eyes, darling? The longer I watch you gravitate towards that which glitters, the more...
Nov 12, 20231 min read
"This Umbrella" by Will Staveley
I was talking to a friend of mine. It was early but we were both late out And we mouthed at the reflection In the other's eyes. And as we...
Nov 12, 20231 min read
"En Garde" by Jackie Meekums-Hales
As ever, on the silent fields, wind whipped across the fresh-mowed grass. The grateful turbine blades were whizzing, whirring frantic...
Nov 12, 20231 min read
"the state of being unaware or unconscious" & "lemon (haiku)" by Charlotte Amelia Poe
the state of being unaware or unconscious a lie i told in between truths okay, but i want you to rip me apart did my heartbeat stutter -...
Nov 12, 20231 min read
"Line" & "Real" by Nolcha Fox
Line Not drunk, he walked between the spaces, spaces where the faded yellow line would stutter, change its mind, begin its job of...
Nov 12, 20232 min read
"Loop: A Reductio", "TO THE RIVER", & "Nanaimo" by Ryan Keating
- Photo provided by the author —Loop: A Reductio— A bowl of fruit loops completes another revolution in the microwave, making 13.7...
Nov 12, 20232 min read
"Into and Out of Human Limbs and Human Lives" by Walker Rose
I hustled for a hundred years underneath the shifting sky the revving of the mythos the taste of death still unswallowed I hustled in the...
Nov 12, 20231 min read
"The Horror" & "Music Turned Up so Loud You Know No One is Listening" by Richard LeDue
The Horror The monster's mouth is giant, yet invisible, with teeth crushing us daily until we call it living. The monster is careful to...
Oct 15, 20231 min read
"dead best friend" by jonny bolduc
i know dreams are your house parties. i am like a teenager stealing mom’s vodka, getting wasted for the first time. you walk without...
Oct 15, 20232 min read
"I was a Middle Child: A Prose Poem" by John RC Potter
Late 50s: I was a Middle Child. Just a middle child. Special in that way. I was a middle child, by default. One of seven, the fourth in...
Oct 15, 20231 min read
"fourteen things (still) on my to-do list" by Abby Coe-Sullivan
get rid of that picture convince my parents i’m fine kiss someone take apart an eraser put the eraser back together stop time make the...
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