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Four Poems
shy watson
sour
i wanted
in the way
that want follows
bedraggled
a half moon
of bites
it starts
like this
slowly
rara saw
FIRE FIRE
in my eyes
hard to describe
to you who
no longer
On Shaving My Legs for the First Time
Nandini Maharaj
On Shaving my Legs for the First Time
the offending hairs that sprout from dark skin
like unwelcome ants that toil through the night
hairs that signal virility on my father’s chin
draw taunts
An Immigrant Love Letter
Kimberly Nguyen
an immigrant love letter
this is a love letter
to jasmine rice and soy sauce in the ethnic aisle to the crisp
melting of duck skin in my mouth you taste the
I Write Panic
Sydney Vogl
I WRITE PANIC
into the locked kitchen
cabinet, china chipped
& sticky. i write
myself into a bottle
of vodka, sloshing
in waves of bitter
padded tongue.
i write the morning
green &
Three Poems
Jack Buck
words to describe love
saw a pretty plant through a store window
picked out a different one instead
that
Three Poems
Rosa Crepax
One night of nothing
When the languorous motion of bats and owls overthrows the scorching August air
making a party only takes three
One night of nothing
heavy on an empty
Self-Portrait as Mermaid or Dead Girl
Gaia Rajan
for M
i.
In the beginning there was only the girl
and the ocean. Someone was telling a story;
in the story a girl’s friend died, an accident,
so she walked into the sea, breathed
the year nyc was covered in cherry blossoms we never got to see
Alexis Briscuso
i got rid of my pack rat tendencies
and spread all the feathers
Significant Tornadoes
Carmen E Brady
Many days I realize my dreams are fiction half way through.
after seeing a dead bear on the highway
RaJon Staunton
its stagnant swollen limbs...
Three Poems
Mariah Bosch
Algo -
I am precise for the machine: tenderness+immediate? Did you
mean tenderness immediately? cheap+recipe+
for+one. when+you+sit+down+and+they+look+
at+you+like+that. libra+[you
Four Poems
Mike Topp
"Strange," "Rare Books," "New Suit," and "The Killer"
Rocky Lives in My Head Rent Free
Julia Do
in this one you’re a six foot / two hundred pound prize
Riverfront Aria
Kathryn Haemmerle
Most people prefer the Vulcan statue...
Recent Books
PERSON/A
Elizabeth Ellen
"If Elizabeth Ellen exists, I would tell her it was like she channeled the anthemic scorn of Alanis Morrisette’s “You Outta Know” through Anais Nin, in her own inimitable way. And if Elizabeth Ellen doesn’t exist, at least she can invent herself.
currently ON SALE for $11!
Legs Get Led Astray
Chloe Caldwell
“Legs Get Led Astray is a scorching hot glitter box full of youthful despair and dark delight.”
—Cheryl Strayed, author of WILD
currently ON SALE for $9!