The Origin of Trees by Jane-Rebecca Cannarella
Palm trees belong to two states: California and Florida. But more to California than Florida – Florida is where oranges grow on trees that are the result of shoots [...]
2016
Cena Trimalchionis by Benjamin Goluboff
The long withdrawing roar can no longer be heard above the small-arms fire from the clubs and schools and churches. Forests burn. Seeds are indentured to multinational [...]
Commitments by Kelle Grace Gaddis
His coarse beard was an array of auburn, brown and gray strands, hairs upturned and twisted out to the side refusing to conform to the lines of his face. The beard had become [...]
Six Poems by Josh Jordan
The Soul Undimmed In quietude you whisper upon the wind, reminiscing upon an afflicted past Outwardly your soul appears cemented from any perception veiled in tragedy, [...]
Poetry Quintet by Jessica Mehta
Ma’am, I Am Tonight Rare are the great moments recognized in the making. That night in Nashville, the rooftop, the five of us. I watched the magic fall slow from the sky [...]
What’s In A Name? by Audrey Wick
She told me she thought about naming me Annabel Lee, after the famous female in Edgar Allan Poe’s poem. Instead, she named me Audrey Ann. She said it was pressure from my [...]
SALT AND LIGHT ~ A COVENANT by Lisa Harris
I. Evil, like most things, takes time to grow— small steps taken and subtle masks worn, nudges and whispers, a wink and a laugh, a slow poison can remain undetected, at [...]
Vending Machine Press Issue #17
Photo by: Johannes Huwe The very fine writers for Issue 17 are: Crying in Cars With Ghosts by Maggie McEvoy Three Poems by Sloane Eliot Mariem Ready for Texas by [...]
Three Poems by Sloane Eliot Mariem
Heresy for the Nonbeliever / Mistaking Real Things for Shadows No refuge here, not with you no room for my veiled language (you’ll find ways to understand) what is this [...]
Ready for Texas by Nicole Bennett
Digging into the sweet potatoes with the two knives held between his fingers like chopsticks, he asked me, “Where are you from again?” then told me he’d [...]
On The Lace Lichen Trail She Mourns A Tree After A Week Of Storms by Lisa Meckel
Off the trail, another great pine massacred by wind and rain. This great gray-chested body felled, no longer a giant against the horizon. Its ripped-out roots cemented with [...]
Fucking a Enuch by Laurie Lessen Reiche
Entanglements. Facebook is Fascist. Don’t you love me? Don’t you get me? Poor marching drummer fallen in a ditch, legs broken, beside the empty road. Leaves are falling [...]
Vending Machine Press Issue #16
Photo by: Johannes Huwe The very fine writers for Issue 16 are: Two Poems by C.M Keehl Two Poems by Erin McIntosh Sharing Music by Emily Alexander Empty Stomach by [...]
Two Poems by C.M. Keehl
I am at the same peninsula where you told me you loved me like lake michigan never one for wading but jump right from dock quick at night I see you as a body/ everybody is [...]
Two Poems by Erin McIntosh
The wolves are at my heart Wolves are at my heart Again but I only continue To revolve around you like The earth to sun a mere planet Next to your heat / I have grown So [...]
Sharing Music by Emily Alexander
Dark morning reaches through windows until the sky is smudged silver like the teakettle on the back burner. Here is the slip of buttons through slits of fabric, the skip and [...]
My Empty Stomach by Ashlie Allen
I am too dizzy to eat, though the lemon cake smells good. She made it for me because she knows I am sad. We will argue when she finds me in here, a bit lifeless, though I [...]
Two Poems by Cara Lorello
VIEW FROM A ROOM, OCEANSIDE Through a single window with vertical paneled curtains drawn back, I watched clouds cast off in long strands across a panorama of electric blue, [...]
Unrecovered Poem by Samantha Madway
Rooms filthy from all the sorrow. Trashcans filled with tissues filled with snot. Dark circles dyed under every eye. Dead skin cells, bits of nails from nervous nibbling coat [...]
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