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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Richmond Ennui by Christine Stoddard
You used to scour the rag shops in Southside, ………………..where black families lived in trailers [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
