audrey el-osta

Rolling Papers by Audrey El-Osta

it was papercraft + origami, it was incensory + aromatic. You made an art of it when you taught me how to roll my cigarettes in the park. Pinch it, hold the tip, lick, twist [...]

June 1, 2015

When the sun is close and other poems by Miriam Calleja

What do you do if you’re that close to the edge, And you don’t know how you got there? How do you feel when, Just by [...]
Quartet for Winds and other poems by Aaron Brame

Quartet for Winds I. My mother birthed me in a skyscraper, named me after the largest city known to the world. Made me a [...]
You are what you eat and I’m not meat by Edward Birt

Bacon. Ham. Sausage. Steak. None of this gets on my plate. Chops. Chorizo. Squid and offal. Divine to some, to me just [...]
The wine label as poetry, 1 by Lindsey Thäden

CHIM CHIM CHAROO-VINEYARDS Gold Label Reserve Chom Chomerlot MAHASKA COUNTY 2015 A drop of our Dutch vintner’s robust [...]
says the same and other poems by Edmund Sandoval

Maybe I’m in love with you. I say this in a diner. On the train car. In the boulevard. She says the same. Probably [...]
Two Poems by John Stupp

Colorado Sometimes it hits me the last time I saw my dad he was in a cardboard box at a crematorium in Colorado cold as [...]
Knock Wood by Shae Krispinsky

I met Valerie when I was working on her parent’s house. It was me and Jack and the other guys on our team swinging [...]
Loss is by April Salzano

not the contact paper on broken walls, the hammock no one used, the black strap that didn’t seem able to stop the badness. [...]
Lush by Deniz Zeynep

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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 [...]
Sounds of Home by John Talbird

He’ll never go back. John’s twenty-four and independent and has no desire to speak to his parents ever again. There’s [...]
Welcome to Vending Machine Press First Birthday Issue #7

Photo by Johannes Huwe Dear Readers, Welcome to Issue 7 of Vending Machine Press. This is a special issue as it is our First [...]