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by Adrienne Novy crying during your counseling session or explaining to your therapist how lonely the cold months are or January in Minnesota or a blizzard of headaches or to be stranded in a whiteout or the blankness of a dry mouth or dripping your spine into the shower drain or snuffing out the lightContinue reading “Synonyms :: Other Words For My Depressive Disorder (Not Otherwise Specified)”

by Jackie Smith I know that I don’t look like the others,those silver ribbons, smooth as whispering petals. I was left an ugly violet-red wrinkled smile. I know I was never meant to be raisedup from the curved pale skin of your thigh. The gold blade is now housed in an orange prescription bottle. ToContinue reading “A Letter from the Last Scar”

by Julian Randall Verse 1 (The Black Comes Out)Since a youngin’ always dreamed of being one thingI’m a half breed my niggaI am something that rhymes with nothingBut everything ends in niggaUsed to want a shiny chain and some TimbsBody too small for all this blood my niggaGive me a definition give me a nameContinue reading “A Tale of 2 Bloodz (After J. Cole)”

by Kati Goldstein Here we are watching the amaryllis change colors in the living room. Here we are learning to kiss on a dirty wooden floor. Yours was the ninth tongue to enter my mouth but the first to ever taste like a tongue should: not metallic or milky, just like mine, only yours. WeContinue reading “WE CAN HAVE A SECTIONAL WITH A CHAISE”

by Alabama Stone when I met you in March, last year, I said,so what’s drunk-driving like in this town?your eyes stuck like you didn’t hear me because,you probably didn’t hear me. In April and May, and in June,I didn’t know, or maybeforgot, that you existed. In July I packed my shit and moved,sweated through everyContinue reading “boilermaker”

by Lydia Havens I have never been good at carrying water. Or swimming. Or becoming one with any kind of body. I was almost born ina teal Volvo, the rain coming down so anxiously on the way to the hospitalit only made my mother contract more. The first time I almost drowned, it was inaContinue reading “Cusp”

Lydia Havens Alabama Stone Kati Goldstein Julian Randall Jackie Smith Adrienne Novy Esther Liv August Smith John Pinkham Anita Ofokansi Ron Riekki Emily Yin Leigh Cheak Kate Foley Dhira Weiss L.R. Bird Malt Schlitzmann Alexandra Comeaux Em Taylor

by Anna Cabe Eve plucked an apple from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Evil Queen dipped hers in poison for Snow White. Think of that red flesh against white skin, the ways in which apples, so wholesome, so Americana — Johnny Appleseed, cider like sunshine — become toxic in women’sContinue reading “To Eve and Snow White and Bad Apples”

by Angie Sijun Lou remember a long time ago / i said i was ready to love someone for real / i knew i was lying just to keep you / in me / i wanted you to think that / under my snake brain / a little rabbit heart was still beating / maybeContinue reading “RAIN GLITTER TEARS CUM”

by Simone Savannah Today on my walk to the gas station for a swisher and a bottle of water, a group of men call at me from across the street. I look at them and shake my head, and when I come out of the store, I know one of them will drive their bigContinue reading “beautiful black queen”