Monogamy and other poems by Nooks Krannie
is it ok to not like life but still like you? somewhat i’m proud of my breasts and my nipples are warriors like mountain tops mounted by dry skin you kiss them gently and [...]
With Feathers by Sheldon Lee Compton
What place is safe now, so we can say what our good logic leads us to understand? Saying we will create our own sunlight, gather and store our own fresh water, conjure up a [...]
Insurance Purposes by J.J. Krill
scrambling to figure out what to do after leaving the holding tank an actual clinic some where is looking like fifty-grand a month who’s got that kind of money the hospital [...]
Come for the stunning career opportunities by Jenya Doudareva
Ox was running late again. To get to work, he had to cut through thick cold darkness from his cluster of lights to the next. The walk was long. The freezing air would pierce [...]
Lush by Deniz Zeynep
……………………………………………………….lush Lux peach [...]
please leave a message and other poems by katie lewington
the echo of a call rings on voicemail left undeleted repeated until the words are a mantra in your head have to let go but then what harm is there in listening to an old [...]
A Modern Yiddish Dictionary by Mari Pack
I. The old Ashkenazim at my office say “nuu” when they want something like fucking Israeli teenagers they are restless, urgent – unrelenting. For the Goys, of which I [...]
False Narratives and other poems by Lauren Suchenski
False narratives this one was the one I concocted – news (though it was fake, it was new) or olds or things sold, re-sold, re-hashed, hashed-brown, mashed down, spoken [...]
What Light Makes a Star? by Joanna C. Valente & Stephanie Valente
who i decide to take as a lover might be one of life’s great mysteries – listen lover, when you ask me if there are spinning suns lodged in your throat I’ll say no, [...]
Facade by Ian Scott McCormick
Phil tried to remember what it was like when he went off to college, 25 years ago. He tried to remember what that state school looked like. Nothing like this campus, he [...]
June’s suspicious eyes by Raphael Maurice
You would say root and I saw it, the deep goodness of brittle earth. Blossom, you’d sing, as I licked my lips & fell against a hill of dirt, laughing at this, our good [...]
Charting Greatness by Laura Iodice
Like many baby boomers, I learned how to diagram sentences in grade school. As a kid who loved reading and writing, I actually looked forward to grammar lessons that required [...]
The Visitors by Sheldon Lee Compton
Uma made a habit of standing in front of a full mirror with a towel wrapped around her head. Always like this when she was fresh from the shower with ropes of her [...]
Pollen for the un-buried monster by Ashlie Allen
Grandma sat on the steps with me, not to spend time but to show me mercy. “You stink, little man.” she coughed. “Are there a lot of bugs on me?” I asked. “Yes, but [...]
this fish has no circadian rhythm (and it’s better off for it) by Chloe DeFilippis
the cicada in you sits on a rusted clothesline in the backyard a bird chased you into the sky once i had scarlet fever once i stopped eating once i tried bones for fun did i [...]
expletive exclamation comma by Lindsey Thäden
Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton First Presidential Debate, 2016 Broadcast by NBC at Hofstra University Hempstead, NY [...]
Crying in Cars with Ghosts by Maggie McEvoy
Footsteps follow me in the parking lot, looking back I see only dead leaves turning in the breeze —it must be the ghosts. See I’d just finished crying with them in the [...]
the day i stopped being a black hole and other poems by Linda M. Crate
“i bet you don’t remember me,” he said, flashing me a devil may cry smirk and eyes full of talons; i was a young girl when we first met and he broke up with [...]
A Call to the Stronger Sex by Christine Stoddard
Ancestors whisper hungrily from their cradles of stars They will haunt us until we women-folk feed their obsession for tradition At least those are the stories that creep [...]
