by Anna Geary-Meyer
School’s out for the summer, sister, so meet me by the pool. You’ll wear a rainbow choker and I’ll chew bubble gum, we’ll sink to the bottom of the deep end, hold our breath forever, swim till our skin’s pale and shrivelled. Bloodshot eyes, a small price to pay for your blurred silhouette, kicking, splashing, heading for the light. Continue Reading
by Kristen Clanton
The pocketknife next to my typewriter
wants to write about mermaids in the sea Continue Reading
by Paul Tarragó
We have renamed our city Dark Star
rejoined the This Many Feelings Club
then held another yard sale
for funds
so we can view view view
the Death Watch channel
featuring: Boy Band Gun Squad,
Violent Appraisal,
and The No-Hands Diet (Sundays at 8pm).
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by Eric Cline
my father’s eyes
are brimming with anger
as he looks down
at my crotch. Continue Reading
by Maggie Millner
Some kind of gravy river
running up me
bringing boats.
Distance is an aphrodisiac:
it makes you ultimate
and soft. Continue Reading
by Sarah Ricard
A red ant crawls across the windowsill,
a moving drop of blood.
There is violence. Continue Reading
Image © Jane Flett 2016 by Lauren Yates March 7, 2016 “you needn’t be wrong to be called delusional.” – Vaughan Bell i. i have never been one for politics. say “watergate” and I crave salad, not scandal. marshmallow… Continue Reading
by Daniel M. Shapiro
They invite you to a variety show. You’re overcome with admiration as you watch everyone warm up: fire eaters’ unlit run-throughs, jugglers’ tosses of turned-off chainsaws. Stay back stage, they say. As a White Swan pas de deux ends, they say, Now it’s your turn, push you onto the stage. Continue Reading
by J Ryan Hibbett
Do watch your step—
centuries of ground freeze
pushed the cobblestones
loose like baby teeth. Continue Reading
by Vivek Shraya
words can i trust you to say what
words have struggled to say Continue Reading