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Cassandra de Alba David Blumenshine Courtney Hammond Ross Robbins Matthew Dinaro Hayley Vinson Maggie Tirrell Ashley Opheim Bret Lawrence Ellyn Touchette Caleb Andrew Ward A. J. Bradley Chelsea Werner-Jatzke Christopher Morgan Sally J. Johnson Emily O’Neill Janea Kelly Tara Jean Bernier Sara Woods Lucy K. Shaw Eric Tran

by Steve Subrizi We were leaning on an empty sink past the shine of a shorting blacklight.If we had moved another inch, our dust would have glowed. You told me you had gone back to Allston for some reason,and you noticed a couch from our old porchmolting like a stoner in our old yard. IContinue reading “HALLOWEEN (or: DEAD STUFF FLOATS IN THE AIR ALL THE TIME, IT’S FINE)”

by Danielle Perry society had no place for us so we left society and sought the god who comes (he comes he comes he comes) he delivers us and we roam through the countryside we tear through villages there is no stopping us woe unto any man who stumbles across our path for we willContinue reading “frenzy of the maenads”

by Dee Mac I worked ‘till midnight and when webroke up, all I thought of was my achingfeet. I called you an asshole and what I meant was why did you wear my favorite shirtand those torn cut-offs that make your asslook like something I’d like to sink myteeth into. I held back my tongueContinue reading “I Thought I Was a Siren”

by Charles Manis I’ve heard people speak of wordsprinted on paper as sensual, like or betterthan sex, an embrace, skillful massage— a visiting poet once tickled mein a classroom of my peers, non-metaphorically,that is, with her fingers. I was a boy then, not because it was long ago,but because of how she pointed out myContinue reading “Eros of Attention”

by Austin Givens with a cup of heatwith two dark circleswith all of it at oncewith every dog pacing before a shitwith a plate of steamed starswith a knack for recognizing DNAwith a knack for understanding the stock marketwith a knack for scoring goalswith me, my darling, with me, my darling, with me, my darlingwithContinue reading “MY TOOLS”

by P. M. Maisano I think that dark matter just might be dead souls.Bodies play host to them until flesh is expired.No longer held by gravity like light in black holes,souls released with a bang, cosmically retired. Bodies play host to them until flesh is expired,along with fear and shame and secrets and loathing;souls releasedContinue reading “A Theory of Inflation: pantoum for Andrei Linde”

by Leyna Rynearson Before I became the best,villainy was kind of a boy’s club,and the clubwas kind of lame. Magneto wears a bucket on his head. Pinky or the Brain?I’m still not sure who was the idiot. Hannibal Lecter wants to eat my… dust,and Professor Moriarity only had to outsmartSherlock Holmes,but there are generations ofContinue reading “Carmen Sandiego”

by Spencer Garrison i am her heartbeati am th flower n her hairi am lunch trays on packed snowhillfour lokos under th spider branch dandruff pinethree graves at home w two teenagers lying softlymelting snow to reach th dead below . i am cold heartbeatdead flower on yr gravei am lunch tray splattered apple saucewe’reContinue reading “regrettable deathsign”

by Alexandria Lowther More then likely the neighborhood is still– dreaming– anticipating the birds chatternature’s alarm clockdisturbing the slumber of thousandsthey mock the sleepers taking flight from rooftop to rooftopflying high and low,living their lives on the wind’s roller coasterhigher and higher and higheruntil they plunge to an untimely deathinches from the ground they swoopContinue reading “Grounded and Flightless (abridged)”