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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

Self Portrait with Sweet Red Wine by Mica Evans

November 1, 2015

I blot my lipstick in all the wrong places like on the lining of my goodwill purse my jacket sleeve the window on the back [...]
George P. Henson by Ed Nichols

August 1, 2014

He knew he was of sound mind, even if no one else did. They all acted like he was off his rocker or something. Always [...]
Four Poems by Justin Hyde

December 1, 2014

after your best friend’s wedding we stood naked in front of the hotel mirror arms behind each other’s backs marveling at [...]
Chalk outlines of a future self by Jay Sizemore

June 1, 2015

I will leave the water running while I brush my teeth, because it soothes me. Being wasteful can be soothing. I wonder if [...]
Sore Spirits and other stories by Ashlie Allen

February 22, 2019

Sore spirits The reservation spirits are sore again. They need our energy. Mom locks the door, useless as it is. We can hear [...]
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 [...]
Three Poems by Alita Pirkopf

September 2, 2016

I have learned to walk I have learned to walk in white fog— so warm it stifled and turned to thick steam. It didn’t [...]
he by lauren millici

April 1, 2015

says I’m a break from routine. Spends the night inside of me, a vacancy at a Motel Six. Fucks without his wedding ring, [...]
Remembrance Day by Bradley Sides

October 11, 2017

I’m first in line for Remembrance Day. I’ve been here since midnight. The announcement never said what time the gates [...]
Two Poems by Jenya Doudareva

August 1, 2015

Single Malt Upward is where you look to find Unsatisfying answers to Somebody else’s dumb questions. Upward is the most [...]
Seasonally Affected and Disordered by Judith Cody

March 19, 2016

Sky stuffed with leaden clouds seeming ready to suffocate like a soggy pillow feeling like the regulation issue California [...]
You Will Drink by Eric Boyd

June 1, 2014

It is the end of the night. A man you hardly know, a new dishwasher at the restaurant you have been at for two years too [...]

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