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by Sam Rush & for Kai It snowed last week & the clouds slept lower.I wonder where your body went without you,who unraveled it & what came falling from their mouths. I think of you; a weighted sky; dirt, loosening itself in welcome; what it is to bury: to deem ready to give back; to kill: to call aContinue reading “Sonnet for Trans Lifeline & February 2017”

by Dana Whtvr I set down my flaming sword long enough to stare intoa hunting trip photo at my Grandfather’s memorial. It shows two men, and him between them ina dress and wig-hilarious joke (everyonelaughed), “abomination” an Unclescoffs casual-like now, tells story: “that’s the ugliest womanI ever saw” man driving by says to man in passengerContinue reading “A SHINING EXAMPLE OF HOW AN HONEST, KIND, STRONG, AND RESPONSIBLE MAN LIVES HIS LIFE”

Dana Whtvr Sam Rush Kirwyn Sutherland Zach Blackwood Joseph S. Pete Elysia Lucinda Smith Wimpy AF Emily S. Cooper Melissa Eleftherion Aleida M Cathleen Allyn Conway Allison Hummel Mariel Fechik E.G. Cunningham Robyn Campbell

by Andy Powell Sons blushed and became soft peaches in the hot backseats of cars, never even wanted the front seat. Or, I was the son, but it’s nice to be plural and grand and count the dandelions in right field as friends, which I picked in the ancient way of boys who’s fathers triedContinue reading “An Embarrassment of Dandelions”

by James Barrett Rodehaver When you’re out in the sticks – the woods are a fortress – sunlight stabs down at you in bright daggers – I bet no one told you how a canopy is like armor. I had a place in the woods where rules couldn’t touch me – little warrior boy with sticksContinue reading “The Sticks”

by John Quinonez I feel as if I should tell youThat I have never yet, seen –A Beaver in the Wild/but have, for sure seen plenty things:-Too many a shrub and quail, -Elk drunk at the Waterfall, -Horses arrogant in the sun-So many a video of Fruit Bats gnawing on…Fruits.-So many dams Made by clawed hands, orContinue reading “BEAVERS”

by Dagmawe Berhanu 1. Trigger happy target 2. Archangel of the burnt and bruised 3. Newport ash on a papi store floor4. Pants way passed where his mama taught 5. It’s my car sir6. Ocean front scalp 7. Jesus in hiding 8. Unintentional vaudeville show 9. Fireflies in his palms 10. A friend’s blood 11. Tomorrow’s bedside prayer 12. Tonight’s prime time special 13. It’sContinue reading “Different Ways to Say the Word ‘Thug’”

by Alison Kronstadt Sometimes I wish I could stop you from talking when I hear the silly things you sayAlison, I know this world is killing youOh Alison, my aim is true– Elvis Costello, “Alison” I was named for a catcall strung out into three verses and a chorus Balladdrowning in mystery fansites say she’s aContinue reading “I Sang It in a Love Song, So It Must Be True”

by Kelly Jones A few years ago a machine peaked into my head and found a section dead. Most likely from a lack of oxygen in utero, but really, that’s speculation – what’s done is doneand there’s no undoing it. Like when I was eighteen andsomeone pilfered the contents of my lingerie drawer. They took it all:Continue reading “The Dark Spots”

by Katherine Indermaur For Owen Steinmann (2016-2017) Sugars trickle from maples’ taut trunks, sappingsummer energy, the crystallized light of wanting to stay alive. But what melody the drops make a manfrom a pulpit always says as they leap out the spout, percuss the bucket’s galvanized bottom. Yes, such sweetvasculature and saccharine, this living always toward death. He callsContinue reading “Replication of a Miracle”