Poems
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What Goes Around
Rebecca Gayle Howell Issue No. 34Not all wells are tapped. Some draw sufficient to run a hose to a house, the low sulfur cloud a mark of the wet-mouth advantaged. As if that’s not enough, they buy the sprays in… Read More »
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Inventory
Brandon Som Issue No. 34The -ah was more song & she sang beyond the name. If the name were river, the -ah flooded its banks. Nonetheless, in its song the -ah signed the air, made the air mean. The… Read More »
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The Origin of Yet Has Been an Object of Endless Speculation*
Paul Nemser Issue No. 34One day the rain may make us blind—mollusk shells that walk about without the flesh, without a lens. Hard ribbed curvatures looking to find hands under the very sameness of the sky we daily drown… Read More »
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The Story
Clarence Major Issue No. 34The story involves fireworks on display, day lilies in bloom, also an unhappy doomed stepdaughter, nymphs playing in the fountain, a mysterious trip to Tangier as a place of refuge, a priceless painting once owned… Read More »
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The Spoon
Clarence Major Issue No. 34So the dish ran away with the spoon. Although the dish prevailed, what they didn’t tell us is how the spoon escaped. The spoon wanted more contrast. That’s a fact. It’s also a fact that… Read More »
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The Nature of Mortal Illness
Bojan Louis Issue No. 33As a kid skeptical of pollen plumes making my skin ash, mind migraine heavy, and nasal cavity a sanctuary for deformed crustaceans seeking terrible refuge in a false moisture I wanted to believe this… Read More »
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Hotel Letters
Cynthia Cruz Issue No. 33In the Estonian film in which I star as myself but prettier, or Jean Genet when he was young in the one black and white photograph I have seen of him. And a room with… Read More »
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Love Poem
Cam Awkward-Rich Issue No. 33Dear woman, listening with your mouth pursed into a false ear, which cannot— despite the clarity with which my sisters, who are poets & so precise as an incision, describe how they are… Read More »
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Bad Weather
Cam Awkward-Rich Issue No. 33So used to drought, the city looked astonished at the sky & I have to believe that’s why she didn’t see me in the crosswalk. I was on my way to celebrate another year… Read More »
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Pluto.4
CAConrad Issue No. 33we win from time to time abandoned above adaptable positions of the losing we risk everything in thinking we can navigate maverick of the green carry a bottle of wine into… Read More »
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Pluto.3
CAConrad Issue No. 33judged by the way we fall in love in the bathroom in sweating out the misery entering the fine blades in harmony chopping all of our best to distribute over the… Read More »
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Long division at the dinner table
francine j. harris Issue No. 32Under the windowsill flowers, my father, stark likemath without calculator, sitting so still and nothingbut a blackened gum eraser and little yellow pencilat table, among the kitchen pastel, a noon windowas I divide big number… Read More »
