suzanne richardson

When cleaning out the closet I find your needles by Suzanne Richardson

Next to a photo album, a shoebox full of mixtapes, a lock of my hair— is your portal glowing like a neon in a liquor store window: OPEN the metal blinks. The door to your [...]

April 1, 2015

Groceries and other poems by WK Lawrence

July 20, 2017

Your passing wind captures me Gently mistakes me for another cold heart Like the ones you find in the frozen foods section [...]
Thieves by Kelle Grace Gaddis

August 28, 2017

Sleep is a type of dying we enter each night. If lucky, we rise from our rest in peace, our pillowed tombs, to see another [...]
Six Poems by Josh Jordan

December 29, 2016

The Soul Undimmed In quietude you whisper upon the wind, reminiscing upon an afflicted past Outwardly your soul appears [...]
says the same and other poems by Edmund Sandoval

October 4, 2017

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 [...]
John and the Rainbow Whatever by Christopher DiCicco

January 4, 2016

John understood the rainbow, which is why he kept his hands on the red. He waited until it hurt, until he felt the colors [...]
Some Nice Words by Jenya Doudareva

January 23, 2017

“Something’s happened” I overheard As I noted the people were rushing away Trying not to look nervous (were they [...]
Turtle and Hare by Chloe Clark

April 1, 2014

If loss were a mathematical concept— a subtraction, a division, a formula for invisible numbers, then how does one [...]
The Cooks Alphabet by Ken Poyner

April 1, 2014

I am having my way with the waitress. Her dress is bunched up about her waist and her panties are dangling at one ankle, [...]
Vending Machine Press Issue #16

September 2, 2016

Photo by: Johannes Huwe The very fine writers for Issue 16 are: Two Poems by C.M Keehl Two Poems by Erin McIntosh [...]
The wine label as poetry, 2 by Lindsey Thaden

July 4, 2017

JUAN CARLOS CUCHILLO FAMILY FARMS Rico Red Reserve Tinto Fino SONOMA COUNTY 2016 It started with a boy and a [...]
The Squirrel Incident by Jenya Doudareva

February 4, 2017

A dead squirrel was laying in the middle of the sidewalk. Cause of death – unknown. Folks running around on their [...]
Stomach language by Ashlie Allen

June 7, 2017

I don’t want to sit down. My stomach is roaring, but my mind is roaring louder. “Don’t go close to them. They think [...]

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