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 […]
Give Me Sugar Plums (Michael Colbert)
I told you Santacon was a bad idea, and now you’re dry-heaving at the ATM with Rudolph, standing in your vomit, and I’m blathering to a snowman about how I was right. The snowman’s grabbing […]
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[…]
Enter John And The Rhinoceros (Mallory Smart)
half way through Eugène Ionesco’s 1959 absurdist play “Rhinoceros” she began to think of John. she always thought of him late at night when she was smoking and reading things that were weird, full of […]
Rejection Letters 