You peered into me while chewingJuicy Fruit—pulling out & undressinganother strip from foil & placing itinto my mouth. You were sixteen.I was the twelve-year-old boywho wore a ragged red-sox cap& hand-me-down overalls,in constant awe of […]
Category: poetry
Leg suits (lindsay hargrave)
How many Leap Years has it been since you got your leg suits on?your bones might tell you, if not you might have forgotten you were running when you fell asleep and dreamt of falling,but […]
asian supermarkets (Dina Klarisse)
supermarket tripsoriental’s not PC asian groceries frozen mung bean sprouts my kuya and i, still young stuck them to our necks held spikey jackfruitsto see who would last longest dad looking for shrimp smell of […]
Boohoo you were born in a cult. (Nate Hoil)
The alien cult hacks your cellphone camera as the air conditioners keep your future corpse from spoiling. I hope you like soaking in marinated space. You are going to spin over flames on a stick. […]
Singing and Screaming and Silence (Ai Jiang)
What is the differencebetween singing and screaming,when the foreign lands we sing ofpush us out and leave usdrowning and screaming in the water? What is the differencebetween screaming and singing,when the words of our mother […]
Technically Trespassing (Shaemus Spencer)
You were dying for a long time,practically since you were bornbones twisted up all funny,balloon joints mostly metal by age eighteen.Wasn’t much you could do about it. People called you shitheadjunkie. I didn’t see it […]
Rejection Letters 