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Homeboy Chicken Weasel and other poems by Kevin Ridgeway

says he got her digits 13th-stepping at an AA meeting that he was going to try them out after he phones his sponsor tonight, ready to fuck her brains out in place of heroin [...]

July 20, 2017

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 child. Blessed me with a song from a gramophone, let [...]

January 12, 2017

Folie à Trois by Quinn White

January 17, 2017

Child is chill. Ghosts like she can kill. Stops rivers without a dam. Horses. Will I watch her cross-country show? Horses. [...]
Vending Machine Press Issue #12

November 1, 2015

Photo by: Johannes Huwe The very fine writers for issue 12 are: Two Poems by Michelle Brooks At Least by Jennifer Saunders [...]
Autumn leaves and other poems by Alison Znamierowski

October 23, 2017

Autumn Leaves with Pictures we opened each other like maps explored, traced our fingers along every outline, got utterly and [...]
SCHRÖDINGER’S CAT PLAYS GOD and other poems by Stephanie Tom

January 24, 2017

The phenomenon of Schrödinger’s cats states: being that the cat was simultaneously half-alive and half-dead in the [...]
Coffee Stains by Christina Murphy

December 1, 2013

Carrying a Starbucks Venti with double cream down the steps, he trips, hits his head, and the coffee spills out into a small [...]
Summer Storm and Birds by Jason Brightwell

March 19, 2016

Evening sky sags in recovery, hanging a lantern — yellow half-light, birds recognize the nearing end of a summer storm. [...]
four dog track poems by B.R. Yeager

August 1, 2015

Milky Way I was too high and the customers could tell. Negating the cold water rubbed into my eye sockets. “Having fun, [...]
Colossal by Ruth Daniell

April 1, 2015

“Aren’t you going to say anything?” Paul ignores the question. Instead, he glances down at the coffee-table that Mel [...]
Quartet for Winds and other poems by Aaron Brame

January 12, 2017

Quartet for Winds I. My mother birthed me in a skyscraper, named me after the largest city known to the world. Made me a [...]
Four Poems by Sloane Eliot

December 1, 2014

oxytocin waste of time on the sonogram, our mistake looked like an eclipse it felt like staring at the sun i looked until i [...]
Six Poems by Daniel Burttram

November 1, 2015

Another Draw She waits for him in their car, out in the parking lot, hoping that a train won’t pass—cutting through [...]
Rolling Papers by Audrey El-Osta

June 1, 2015

it was papercraft + origami, it was incensory + aromatic. You made an art of it when you taught me how to roll my cigarettes [...]

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