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Queen of the Underworld and other poems by Chloe DeFilippis

4, 3, 2, 1 under the green light bulb narcissus pinched plucked breast to breast fingers fist pushed deep into the hollow of a pomegranate I am your Underworld widened for [...]

February 15, 2017

Bitter Witness and other poems by Jerry McGinley

The icy-eyed moon gnashes her razor teeth, shrieks like a wounded possum, glares at the starry-eyed lovers who pledge fidelity by her light.  I’m not who you think I am, [...]

February 14, 2017

The Politicks of My Body by Jacklyn Janeksela

The politicks of my body goes like this. It’s none of your fucking business. My body is mine –whatever that means, but it’s not yours. My body might actually hate your [...]

February 13, 2017

Over and other poems by Donna Dallas

Damn girl. Look at you. Who made venom so thick course through your blood? The cold flow of winter is in you. Blue blood, blue eyes, dead heart. Too many footprints over your [...]

February 12, 2017

Prosperity and other poems by Anna Keeler

Second wave feminism and a Sexual revolution Too forward to Keep buried in your pants. You learn what it’s like to have To have an existential crisis With a construction [...]

February 11, 2017

Sleeping and other poems by Simone Savannah

 She says last night I was all over the bed pushing her to the edge of it and I am laughing with her because I remember how this started with you— If appropriate I would [...]

February 9, 2017

POKÉMON MOON and other poems by Graham W. Henderson

POKÉMON MOON the defiant day moon overpowered by the sun who lights it anyway the deferent day moon tries to touch its host theater of the night moon here on the beach all [...]

February 8, 2017

classifieds and other poems by Chloe DeFilippis

you took my shredded skin / wove it into baskets / sold them for $$$ couldn’t protest cuz my voice’s been ground into fine white powder you pack into little baggies / you [...]

February 7, 2017

post-inauguration poem by Shy Watson

it is a saturday night i am at a strip mall dunkin donuts in south philadelphia in my pajamas i am Irrationally Mad about the dumb things & not angry enough about the [...]

February 6, 2017

Sorry My Dad Trolled You Last Night by Matthew Dexter

We booby-trap the house to prevent Dad from drunk posting on Facebook. He lost his career at Raytheon and his reputation throughout Maricopa County. Dad is a good man—when [...]

February 5, 2017

The Wall of Hearts Desire by Donna Lynn Marsh

I always wanted a wall. Actually, I wanted four. They hold roofs really well and who among us doesn’t want a roof over one’s head? I’ve dreamed of stone and brick [...]

February 5, 2017

The Squirrel Incident by Jenya Doudareva

A dead squirrel was laying in the middle of the sidewalk. Cause of death – unknown. Folks running around on their morning business in sombre palette suits, as per [...]

February 4, 2017

On Donald Trump Tweeting that Meryl Streep is One of the Most Overrated Actresses by Amy Saul-Zerby

This year we learned the difference between shock & surprise & maybe too late, but who would have thought, if given the chance to think? who would realized the [...]

February 1, 2017

Distant Homeland by Joseph S. Pete

The inchoate Macedonian teen, Little more than a tender sprout, Untested and provincial, Set sail alone across the Atlantic Into a great unknown So he wouldn’t be [...]

January 31, 2017

Richmond Ennui by Christine Stoddard

You used to scour the rag shops in Southside, ………………..where black families lived in trailers [...]

January 30, 2017

Another Word For ‘Birthday Hamster’ by Laura Pavlo

There were one thousand “e”’s in the “please” Lucia’s son sung into the pet store window as he furiously pressed his fingers against the glass at a [...]

January 29, 2017

Life Hack by Jessica Bonder

Denial, it ain’t just a river. This is what passes for psychoanalytical comedy, cross-stitched on a decorative accent pillow in Dr. N.’s office. It doesn’t exactly fit [...]

January 27, 2017

Killing My Grandmother’s Grandaughter and other poems by Kanika Lawton

I think my body will always be an euphemism for apology, always too tall or too short or too wide or too thin. My hips offering sin like sweet cakes, condensed milk liquor [...]

January 25, 2017

SCHRÖDINGER’S CAT PLAYS GOD and other poems by Stephanie Tom

The phenomenon of Schrödinger’s cats states: being that the cat was simultaneously half-alive and half-dead in the box to begin with, it becomes either wholly alive or [...]

January 24, 2017

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  • Sight-Seeing New York City Fall 2001 by Jonathan Church

    A blind man steps onto the N train at 59th Street. He turns his head and seems to wait for a stranger to gently grasp his [...]
  • 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 [...]
  • Two Poems by Carla McGill

      ANOTHER DRIVE This time I leave the circling freeways of Los Angeles, head the other way toward the burnt land of [...]
  • Vending Machine Press Issue #13

      Photo by: Johannes Huwe The very fine writers for issue 13 are: A Milton Bradley Game by Hilary Sideris Radio Truth [...]
  • Example 52 by JD DeHart

    That lack of response to my chance Good Morning, the stare when I wave hello, yet another example of why I dislike most [...]
  • Take as Directed by Thomas Kearnes

    Greg wants to quit the Effexor. He washes up for bed in the bathroom. I’m already under the covers, seated against the [...]
  • No Picture

    Two Poems by Michelle Brooks

    Three Mile Island at Night I am waiting for the disaster of my life to reveal itself. All the elements are present for an [...]
  • two poems by carolyn elias

    Animals in Winter A pale yellow sun observes brown trout undulating inside a frozen lake, the red swollen bellies of [...]
  • Vending Machine Press Issue #14

    Photo by: Johannes Huwe The very fine writers for issue 14 are: Summer Storm and Birds by Jason Brightwell I Want To Be Like [...]
  • Sorry there are demons in the weather and other poems by Luke Bradley

    Tilting up to bluelit bottles like organ pipes and gulping the air, the wonder of five hypothetical storeys, dread will fill [...]
  • We are home here and other poems by Cassandra Justine Grisdale

    I watch as you stretch in your sleep, muscles flexing under skin whose scars I kissed moments earlier. You sigh deeply and I [...]
  • Lush by Deniz Zeynep

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