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by Rax King The way that great poets talk about writing lovepoems tells me: it is no great thing to be in love. I delineate natal charts like a fraud:tell a saucer-eyed girl herself as a Scorpio, meas a Virgo(you can tell anyone anything).I say to her, Scorpios are such bullies. Her lips lockedround aContinue reading “The Recklessness Of Trusting Men”

by Kate Foley There were galaxies in your dress. Maybe it was the way you moved or maybe it was the way I swallowed the pill but the cosmos was chaos and all I could see was the light years between us. When our eyes were black holes, we danced in a dirty warehouse inContinue reading “New Year’s Eve”

by Fitz Fitzpatrick You watch your favorite glass fall off a ledge and shred into a thousand heartbreak reflections of yourself. A lump catches the scream in your throat. You don’t feel anything, Just wonder why you can’t move. There is no time. You have to go to work, go see friends, do the dishes.Continue reading “Trauma”

by Polis Xiams the red nosed joker who should disappear more oftenplayed party tricks in babylonia it began as heaven and it almost became kirksville-the kids sucked all the vodka out of apple everything ends with two balls does the sun look the same from outer space? “how much do you want to bet” isContinue reading “It’s Not Real”

by Hazem Fahmy Walk briskly, child. They know your name, now. They will stab it in the dark, but also in the light, when you’re looking.Your bulging eyes sapphires of the Mediterranean,displaced across a screen for their digestion. Once, I was a prince,regal but mistaken for a beggar. Their cameras nurturedme, and I was gratefulContinue reading “Omar Sharif Congratulates Rami Malek From The Grave”

by Otto K. resist the urge to feel guilt if you must leave the family that named youwhen they refuse the name you grew into. when you’ve called yourself bastard for too longwhen you’ve tattooed your mother’s name on your chest and called it battle scar, realize a true family does not shrink you. doesContinue reading “How to Obtain a Family”

by Meeni Levi In the story the manSees women & saysSea-horses. The man/friendWho sent me the storyDoes not seem to feelAbout this asDeeply as I do. In the story the manSees women & saysSea-horsesAnd when he grows he learnsThat in order to sustainLife/a relationshipYou need to change the water. By the end of the storyTheContinue reading “A FRIEND ON FACEBOOK SENT ME A STORY ABOUT FISH OR ABOUT WOMEN”

by Allyson Whipple The cleaver splits skin. I break the fruit along its fault line, do not anticipate dozens of black seeds slick as eyes, at least twice the size of roe, at least tenfold the size of the pencil-point eggs embalmed in my body, waiting for a chance I forestall month after month. FolkContinue reading “Halving Papaya”

Allyson Whipple Meeni Levi Otto K. Hazem Fahmy Polis Xiams Fitz Fitzpatrick Kate Foley Rax King Kimberly Ann Southwick Rebecca Brown Tom Fugalli Aleida M M Axton Kai River Blevins Jasmine Dillavou Chris Rife Ela Thompson Robert Vaughan Huimin Wan Dan Hogan

by Caitlyn Gilvary Davidheiser Sometimes / I dream that I killed / your second husband. / There is blood everywhere / in the dream / in the bed / I wake bleeding between legs // I am still / your little girl. At ten, I was so in love / with Giles Corey when /Continue reading “Peine Forte et Dure (For the Women Who Love Giles Corey)”