literature + art magazine
artist: early worm by D.S. Maolalai and so we grew tired of lamp-oil. whaling too cruel a sport and death too much a price. dirty yellow light like tobacco-stained apartments. too cruel. better to crack the skin of rocks and dig down. and we did and black oil oozed forth, a boon without cruelty. more…
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artist: unknown by D.S. Maolalai I sit in my kitchen drinking wine, banging out letters surrounded by drowning shirts and shiny trousers. laundry day and they hang, shapeless as crashed traffic. there is something; the drip comes like footsteps in rattles on the lino. life – car-wreck surrounded with grim chance and the smell of…
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artist: julia walck by D.S. Maolalai my friends send me news articles which I really should be reading but instead I go on YouTube and hunt for old cartoons; Wile E Coyote and Elmer Fudd – I always like the losers in every game I see but in the news today none of the losers…
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___ Alexandre Nodopaka originated in Kiyv, Ukraine. Speaks San Franciscan, Parisian, Barcelonan, Kievan, & Muscovite i un poco de Espanol. Mumbles in English. He propounds having studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Casablanca, Morocco. Presently full time author, visual artist but considers his past irrelevant as he seeks new reincarnations.
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___ Fabrice Poussin teaches French and English at Shorter University. Author of novels and poetry, his work has appeared in Kestrel, Symposium, The Chimes, and many other magazines. His photography has been published in The Front Porch Review, the San Pedro River Review as well as other publications.
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artist: Evan Sloan by Heidi Slettedahl Loneliness Loneliness a white sheet drawn over me at night, my naked body unaccustomed to the weight River’s Edge I’ve never swum in a river for fear of tides and my dead uncle. My father made us learn to swim in pools even as he stood on the edge,…
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artist: alis laura by Gerard Sarnat Oedipal Inadequate dad’s persona of perfection is a projectile. Have Faith? Canon, curse, sermon, tongues, discourse, dharma, bible — ishkabibble ___ Gerard Sarnat is a physician who’s built and staffed homeless and prison clinics as well as a Stanford professor and healthcare CEO. He won the Poetry in the…
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artist: morysetta by Lauren Bender I pack my identity guides, flip and re-flip the pages in my quest to make a catalog not just of what I am and not just of what I think I am or what I would like to think I am but what I could be. Most important of all…
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Artist: Matthias Ripp by Lauren Bender I bled out during the night. A small wound. I don’t know why. I woke to find my body drained, a bit dizzy. Must have been midnight when I hit empty, a man rattling my doorknob back and forth slow, quiet, angry at its lock. Must have been…
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Artist: Mr. Piper by Kelly Stacy Let us pay the bill on time, let us walk to the grocery store together, let us order more shelves for that space in our living room, between the radiator and the wall, let’s give it some purpose, let’s fill it with all our small totems, let’s do brunch…
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