all colors are pastel & jellyfish float in a violet skythe radio plays Brian Eno along with the comforting symphony of crickets the mall has always been dirt-freethe daily news is a loop of fresh lavenderbut there are no stars & moon no […]
Category: poetry
Wichita train song (Christopher Walters)
I want to see the wonders of life, but I’ve only seen dead armadillos.At the stop light, two girls in a white suburban sing to me.Here I am, in a duplex, I cut off all […]
11:11 (Vic Nogay)
i need you all to dig a hole back to2003, blast some something corporatepaint your nails black andremember how it felt to feel—feelingwithout fear or shame or apprehension ormaybe feeling fear and shame and apprehension […]
The Necromancer Answers the Poet’s Plea (Godefroy Dronsart)
No ! For the last time, I cannotrevive poems, nor mend their bones,the shadows I stitch harbour nosymbols, no myths, no demonseven. It’s[…]
Diamond Mines (Margo LaPierre)
My father brings me to a diamond mine by the highway where the hills grow giant looming lacy things, daisies. A house grey as cloud shudders at the back edge of an overgrown field. My […]
Cheater (C. Cimmone)
The only reason I don’t cheat Is because no one else can keep a secret Like I do. *** C. Cimmone is an author, editor, and comic from Texas. She’s alive and well on Twitter at @diefunnier. […]
Lower Michigan (Mackenzie Moore)
First thing on your docketonce ‘ya been pricked by the needle? Go get pricked by needlesfill the tank up with inksaturate the swathsthat stood vacant and lonely—like the kolache shop that ran out of money— all those months Go […]
The Deal With Bigfoot (Jack B. Bedell)
If the feng shui of your brain’s set up properly,Bigfoot doesn’t have to make a soundto communicate what he needs you to know. As long as you’re not jamming shitwith your phone or setting up […]
“Maggie the Cat” (Blake L. Bell)
Spend most of the family party daydreaming: visiting dive bars down the river, throwing back bourbon, taking home a rough man. Want to be punished. Always want to be taken apart. What if you run […]
