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hints on health
Sofia Banzhaf
hints on health
you touched my skin
in the crowded afternoon
my blood like a bloom
warm and erected
our bodies are useless
in winter
my need for excess
diminishes to the pursuit
of damp
sadness dies badly like a waiting room plant
Chelsea Tadeyeske
sadness dies badly like a waiting room plant
every body is mostly water
and will still only sink or float
it’s so maddening
it takes me two hours to finish
an apple
sometimes the human in
Five Poems
Sophie Weil
crazy horse
half full heavy
whipping cream in their drywall construct
see me mob hammer ?
smack dab middle of july
i ask and clam up
that thunder is new to me
racking up the bill
instead
Britney's People
Lu Chekowsky
Britney’s People
Britney is a crystal swan born from a cave where they manufacture crystal swans. Britney’s People are her protectors. No people are as important as Britney’s People because it is
Four Poems
McKenzie Toma
Fragrance
I never lost what I had out of eye the piano minded surplus or acheless weather what ever the
night still oily with a personality is there is no sense
Three Poems
Sadie Dupuis
CRYSTAL THINKING
Dream logic gets my sober companion drunk
Vomiting silver in the private beehive of our wagon
I went to the cemetery and played you a too-fast solo
Mud seeped in the ass of my
Soda Fountain
Janelle Cordero
On my first job I worked for a woman named Jeanie who owned a soda fountain, thrift store, and tavern. I worked at the soda fountain fixing milk shakes and simple sandwiches for the few customers that
Our relationship as embrace b/w Icarus & light
Samantha Fain
the sun sees Icarus & tries to shift...
Zoom Ballets
Ariana Kelly
I had someone once. He spoke the Queen’s English, lived in a house built by timber hewn from his property. We were layman lovers, easily able to make cracks about the poverty of the crescent moon but
Ode to Cigarettes
Brett Hanley
I know in heaven they are unlimited and free...
The Winter Shed
Samantha Samakande
"Tight coils come / up floating in / my husband's peppermint..."
Did NOT See That One Coming: Visual Poems
Nance Van Winckel
DID NOT SEE
NOT THAT ONE!
SEE?
COMING!
DIDN'T ONE?
FOUR POEMS
Stephanie Kaylor
HOW DID YOU GET STARTED IN THIS WORK?
In this story I am meant to tell you of the men I met in parking lots. It is night and it is will be raining, though I do not know the science behind the
Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid
Danielle P. Williams
after Ruby/Hilary
For just
fifteen seconds
out of my twenty-
six years living
I imagine
myself
a white woman
bones breaking
in a new way
my
Superstitious Asians
Shin Yu Pai
if it were untrue, I might have been
less mad; I am the best of drivers
tiger mother, paper tiger, full
of slant, piss and vinegar
that occasion of our first big fight,
he connoted with a
INTERNET GIRLFRIEND
Stephanie Athena Valente
two seasons of sabrina,
the teenage witch
under my belt
i’m feeling powerful
i sign on AIM after 9pm
dial up noises are wands
just a secret crush
it’s always nice,
talking to you,
My Daughter Has Never Heard of Home Alone or All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth
Adam Hughes
She lives with her mom
two states away
and I wish this was all
I've failed to teach her.
Recent Books
Pregaming Grief
Danielle Chelosky
Is this new relationship self-sabotage in disguise, or is it the cure?
Backwardness
Garielle Lutz
Garielle's longest, most peculiar, most particularized book. A sure-to-be collector's item. Not be be missed!