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 [...]
September 2016
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 [...]
About The Universe by Eleanore Lee
Why worry? In five billion years our sun will become a spuming red giant. Will it matter then who got Mother’s Ming dynasty vase? Hell, the old family farm will be [...]
A Brief History Of Cola by Glen Armstrong
Though cola is undeniably a cultural construct and any modern, identifiable culture should be able to construct a Rube Goldberg-inspired machine, to speak of “xenophobic [...]
Two Poems by Shoshanna Beale
Lost In this grey and desolate world I wander like a ghost through haunted cityscapes and narrow muted streets, and I search and search I walk through silent streets, past [...]
Prodigal by Michele Madigan Somerville
When the clock strikes, the masks are delivered. I pause in a doorway, a shade, a champagne glass in my hand. Station stop: Build the pyramids. If you must petrify, think: [...]
Two Poems by Betsy Martin
The Biosphere This storm is strange for Tucson, the frigid rain sprayed down the way the gardener hoses bird excrement from the bricks. The purple teeth of the mountains [...]
De Stijl by Sarah Vernetti
Claire stands and struggles to find her balance. The walls, the floor, the ceiling converge as a single plane, the seams between them impossible to distinguish. She begins to [...]
Speed by Alice King
That summer was a hairpin curve taken at ninety, blue lights lost among trees. The humid air shivered with rebellion, and my mother’s tears formed the heavy raindrops [...]
Overpass by Alison Hicks
Two days after my mother died I lay on the mat in the storefront studio down the street from the tracks. My mother appeared at the top of the overpass. I waited for her to [...]
Everywhere by Lisa Harris
Everywhere: under rocks, edging out beneath rotten logs, on tendrils of Creeping Jenny on fingertips on your kiss already a memory. On the kitchen floor in falling feathers [...]
Marriage For Dummies by Andrew Kuhn
Remember that we are all dummies here, and must never label each other as such. Say “I” a lot. As in, “I like how you look in those pants.” Or, “I admire your [...]
Three Poems by Alita Pirkopf
I have learned to walk I have learned to walk in white fog— so warm it stifled and turned to thick steam. It didn’t burn; it smothered. I have also learned to walk in [...]
Two Poems by Helen Wickes
January Dazzle What did we know then—clock ticking, spilled salt, and that one faucet— bitterly, bitterly. The heart stammering something soft—little felt hammers over [...]
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