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by Caleb Andrew Ward If you wanted, you could hold the sun in the palm of your hand today.It would only go where you tell it to go. It would only stay when you said, stay. I tried to hold the sun, but my hand wasn’t sturdy enough. I didn’t have the calloused hands youContinue reading “You could hold the sun in your hands today”

by Ellyn Touchette so let me make you this analogy, yeah? let’s say this thing we’ve both got is like, a komodo dragon or some shit, alright? so he calls me and says he can’t keep me and the komodo dragon, and I’m all like listen, I can take it for you for a whileContinue reading “KOMODO DRAGON”

by Bret Lawrence We lead each other down by the lighthouse –further out there are men fishingon a sand bar that we can’t see,their ankles disappearing in waterbeneath the shackles of light.You toss a sun-swollen blackberryand I catch it in the bottom of my mouth.The horseflies race above usjockeying for bare skin.We run with them,Continue reading “The Cherries of Gods”

by Ashley Opheim I resist tweeting and keep the following thought to myself: In industrial meadows we are future gardens made of heart nectar. The average human being thinks somewhere between 7,000-50,000 thoughts a day. How many thoughts does the Dalai Lama have a day? How many thoughts does Miley Cyrus have a day? WhatContinue reading “Cinnamon Oil”

by Maggie Tirrell i have low self-esteem so you can fuck me— anytime, anyplace let my pale/frail, pale/frail, pale/frail as fuck body take you in and throw you up in the morning, let so much happen because so much is always happening and you’re never around for it when you first said the word ‘sex’Continue reading “i am needy & do not know what i’m going to do about it”

by Hayley Vinson I am the kind of person who speeds up at yellow lights trying to get home to text you once before you get on a plane to IsraelI am the kind of person who looks at you too much when im driving because I know youre there and it feels like aContinue reading “Things You Should Know About Me and the Dating Thing”

by Ross Robbins And the first one tore a pictureout of an old issue of Redbook.“I don’t look at all the way I want.” Lonelily rolled down backroadswhipping great dustclouds.Hip cocked to fire the killshot: (kind of trite, as it turned out)It’s almost Father’s Day, so Idon’t buy stamps. Instead I suck oysters until myContinue reading “Sonnet Against Sex”

by Courtney Hammond You taste like a tongue I’ve never spokeneach time I kiss you. There is nothing hereI understand, everything I want to. If you were music,I’d at least know the tempo, how to sway or quickstep.I could pick up a tango in a few hoursbut it takes months to teach my tongue toContinue reading “Lost Consonants”

by David Blumenshine a partoff in me, indeed, abandoned an Inow forbidden returns to storerotten a rotten storeage where slander where self is concerned isnot exactly libel but mayprovoke cockroachesto lightly spice historicfreedom choices for freedomsolutions option solidslim & dense noses: mine ain’t right, pick meup a nude wand, where we can later recordthe branchestoContinue reading “from STUNTING ON A JUMBOTRON”

by Cassandra de Alba everything can be reducedto a quality of light what i am feeling nowis blue sky behind dead treesfiltered through a windowjust to the rightof whatever i’m staring at last night i wanted to feellike the faint sunrise glowbeyond a hill off the highwaythe ragged, haloed treelinelike a breaking promise but insteadContinue reading “by way of explanation”