the paper was clean and whitethe pencil was so sharp it snapped its leadthe broken pencil was a metaphorfor something but what? the broken pencil was uselessthere was a gaping hole like a volcano craterwhere […]
Category: poetry
THREE PRAYERS (Matthew Burnside)
I. In Defiance, RE: The Brazen Fuckery of These Darkloom Days (DEAR WHOMEVER,tired of mirrors slitheringtired of pasting facestired of every pittedpensive pendulumabove all tired of being tiredfed up from feedingall these fanciful metaphors of […]
There Must Be Blood (Elizabeth R. McClellan)
For Honest Lewis “There must be blood”—the unbreakable lawof revolutions and fairy tales.This I knew. We grow up knowing. The emperor was cleaning outthe granaries we had filled for winter,the burse, even—kitchen maids whisper— selling […]
Crashing Towards a Break (Sidney Dritz)
I left my hearton a Greyhound bus on the nightof the lunar eclipse when my seat-mate drank vodka and neon-red fruit punchfrom a soda cup, called every relative he had,and begged them to look out […]
god forbid (Anisha Narain)
god forbid i have a body god forbid i show its lines, its curves, its stretchmarks: yaw / pitch god forbid it transforms grows, revels in its own glory god forbid it lets its mere […]
the thousand times to remember the rising and falling of the sun (Nosakhare Collins)
before he died my father told mei’d make the monster that would kill meso i know this was someone else’s deathhappily chanting into my feet hoping to devour mein seconds. i recognize the plight smile,perhaps it thought i […]
ON DENYING THE HORRIBLE REALITY OF BEING A CORPORATE PENCIL-PUSHER WHO KNOWS THAT =VLOOKUP IS A CROSS-FUNCTIONAL EXCEL TOOL THAT’S ONLY USEFUL FOR SUPPRESSING ALL HOPES AND DREAMS (Shawn Berman)
and perhaps i should learn to only focus on things that truly make me happy.like the first christmas we spent together,wine drunk off gas station roséeating mcdonald’s naked on our futon,just relaxing,not really doing anything […]
Go Back to School, Greta (Sahana Ahmed)
FameShameSchwarzeneggercan get you a Tesla 3But Twitter won’t turbochargeyour trumped-up monopolyDon’t blame the kings, Gretahot lava bombs and heresyGo make some friends, GretaQuit tallying-dallying[…]
The Xi Movement (Karen Steiger)
So I talked to Alan last night,for the first time in a long time.You heard that his wife left him, right?She joined a cult.Which is kind of hilarious.I mean, it’s very serious and sadand a […]
Rejection Letters 