On winter weekend mornings, my sister and I hauled four woolen razais, bound in white muslin—our backs bent with the weight and the breadth and the length—out to the balcony of our house. We spread […]
God (Danielle Chelosky)
I wait for you to come to the door. I used to count how many seconds it took for you to get to the bottom of the stairs. It was around 36, or maybe half […]
Couplets for the United States in 2020 (Charlotte VanWerven)
Make a cathedral of 2020 andI’ll show up to confess I didn’t vote in 2016. I’ve neversaid that out loud. Fuck, I’ve never said that to anyone. My penance is to forgive myself, and that will […]
Hand Me The Speculum (Dana Guth)
I too have stolen vitamin capsules from the grocery store and the bruised-up sky shows its handlit with grease— With wisps of frog in my languageI tear through the park and attempt to make space for god […]
All my son wanted for his birthday was a toilet piñata (Sheldon Birnie)
Sure, he also had “sword (a real one)” and “bb gun” on the list, but come on. He’s five. I suppose we probably shouldn’t be encouraging such crudity. But fuck it, 2020 right? Couldn’t throw […]
gifts of grief (Tiffany Shaw-Diaz)
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 […]
NEED HELP FINISHING SCI/FANTASY NOVEL (SO CLOSE!) (Jacob Ginsberg)
I need help finishing my sci/fantasy novel. I’m about 90% sure I know how I want it to end, but I have a few tweaks and decisions to make. I want to make sure I […]
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 […]
