by Trevor Plate plastic palm tree shades the pink wall envelopes of blue and your bite it’s crocodile lust on me like a fever my oiled eyes wrapped around your voice these limbs/the ceiling and […]
Airplanes Move Sideways
by Trevor Plate Concrete and metal and sky breathing heavy The mountains beyond themselves in the distance Sun giving up to the demon electric Scent of a human this flight of a lifetime Telling the stories […]
Two Poems
by Rita Mookerjee Nemesis People admire a sense of industry / a spirited sort of communism / how the labyrinth tenants toil away over early blooms / tufted legs weighted with sun dust / […]
Three Poems
by Darren Demare & EMILY AS THE SECOND WINTER I pressed the bleakness of Ohio to my face & I breathed so deeply that I swallowed old wounds to create new wounds & Emily, she […]
Collecting
by Trista Hurley-Waxali When he said we were moving in, I wasn’t sure what he meant. Most of our friends were demolishing and then rebuilding, so it wasn’t so much as moving in but entering a […]
If My Name Were a Verb
by Glen Armstrong My body is here again. It doesn’t want to be. I’m angry at my clothing. I feel unbalanced when I watch movies about people starting over in new towns. My body has […]
Three Poems
by Anne Mikusinski & Notes From a Waiting Room twenty-seven jumbled pieces formed instinctively work flawlessly together creating music that invite ideas to appear on a scraps of found paper I sketch you out from […]
Two Poems
by Lyn White & Rooks There are just two pieces left. Two fragments of our dreams. Two castles in the air, the remnants of a game we played where there was no winner. Like a […]
Baba Yaga
by Caitlin Copland I dreamed of the Yaga. She looked me in the eye told me she would consume me. I was not afraid — even when she opened the skylight and began painting with my […]
Mental Health Day on Sunset Boulevard
by Gabriel Ricard Emily and her huge teeth had to learn the weird-waitress- in-a-small-neighborhood-being-eaten- alive-by-the-bigger-surrounding-one- way that you can’t just decide to go to Hollywood, because that’s easier than telling everyone that love is just […]
