by Jason Graff Dorothy Parker was funny in a cruel way which I think made us like her all the more, especially mother, who saw herself as some gutsy, wise, old truth teller of the […]
Two Poems
by Eric Stiefel & & Meaning, Meaning It All Falls Apart & You’re brushing your teeth in the midst of one of those mornings that can only be described as ennui. You rinse your mouth without […]
Bau
by Grace Yannotta The dog sits in the corner of the room. She looks like one of those pharaoh dogs, Suze thinks, the lithe golden body, the sharp ears, the keen dark eyes. The […]
Emily
by Howie Good Sailors just grabbed what they could — a Mickey Mouse teddy bear my sister had since she was little — before the ship broke apart in nightmarish purple seas, the wind wailing as if the wails […]
Gutter
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 […]
