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 [...]
Familiar Stranger by Eva-Marie Sher
The crow on the horizon you see in the eyes of the Trappist… from The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You by Frank Stanford I travel the grief of my ancestors [...]
Psalm by Mark Tretin
PSALM The stammer of the crow is me. The stilted stream is me. The stinkweed fouling the roots of the sycamore is me. So here I stand, sick, among blue flowers. Yet the [...]
Behavior Pattern by Frank Rubino
I have very much liked you— to feel one has acted well— My behaviors were in admiration of you and perhaps imitative beyond healthy, like apes learning to fish for ants [...]
Firefly by Gladys Justin Carr
I dabble in wings in variations of flux Heraclitus is my friend everything in the world is my living room I am not pretty but let me show you my light here I land on your [...]
On a Photograph Never Taken of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Friends, Manhattan, May 1, 1920 by Benjamin Goluboff
Fifth Avenue had been cleared and they drove Stanley Dell’s Buick twelve blocks down the parade route before a cop chased them off. This day last year, with all the [...]
Vending Machine Press Issue #15
Photo by: Johannes Huwe The very fine writers for Issue 15 are: and when i by Alison Leigh Znamierowski All Types of Powerlessness by Ashlie Allen Two Poems by Jenya [...]
and when i by Alison Leigh Znamierowski
when you left in summer i watched moonlight fall squarely onto your pillow where your full-moon shoulder once waxed and waned with each breath beside me when you left in [...]
All types of powerlessness by Ashlie Allen
I like when I get dizzy and feel like talking about my misery after drinking. I can admit I am suicidal and laugh about it. Sometimes I try to crawl, just to prove to myself [...]
Two Poems by Jenya Doudareva
Music And Lyrics By I was there I was there I was There I was there I was there when The clouds were melting icebergs Leaking into the sky, gazed at By a young boy born the [...]
Two Poems by Chloe Clark
All the Tea that My Creepy Heart Desires Lapsang souchong, oolong, or maybe pu-erh, tasting of hay, of smoke, of the sun rising in pine forests, but I could be wrong there [...]
Three Poems by Molly Kelley
A Quality Skull I have a quality skull. I could find it in the dark. Stripped of its skin. I could hook my finger through the eye socket and know. Non-plastic, insoluble. I [...]
Two Poems by Raphael Maurice
UTOPIA This is the hard land of miracles. Land of arias over the fields, land of music made by the god at morning. Land of nerves, land of the timpani-heart, savage, struck [...]
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