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by Robert Vaughan for Matthew Wayne Shepard (12/1/76- 10/12/98) When the wind whistles through any barbed-wire fence you can hear him sing your name, you who left him hangingthere like a scare-crow, through ablack, never-ending night and a Laramieprairie chill, a torture thateven the killdeer’s screecould not see coming… kidnapped, robbed, pistol-whipped, then eighteenhours inContinue reading “On The Wings Of A Dove”

by Ela Thompson My hands sloppily on the wheel,pressing, molding the spinning cylinderthinner & thinner, until I stretch it too far& the too smooth clay flops limply into itself. I push things too far, I know. You said something about how I get too close, how I smother, but I didn’t get close to you,Continue reading “The Potter”

by Chris Rife a fork with three tines / cracked rubber bands snips of string in varying lengths / four nuts / seven bolts six bits of metal / unidentified / found oxidizing in dew a postcard from where / you wish I were Philips head screwdriver / twenty flat head screws expired coupons /Continue reading “Junk Drawer”

by Jasmine Dillavou Where we come from is closely related to how we die out. Some sprinkle into ash trays in Cuban bars with topless girls and dry aged tobacco. Some just die out. Much like infertile wombs. Much like stolen lunch boxes. Much like the first time you cut all your hair off, andContinue reading “Mixed Girl Anarchy”

by Kai River Blevins It must have been March.The Palo Verde trees lookedparticularly lonely, buttheir leaves would returnsoon enough, when thespring rain soaked their roots. I must have been five,maybe six, maybe child,maybe monster. I couldnever tell. I only knewthat time was my enemy.I was growing into a body that everyone told me wasBoy. IContinue reading “Arizona Boy”

by M Axton I don’t take back my birth. An end is not always undoing Beginnings. I carry you with meIn the coincidence of my face. The resemblance of my feet To yours, crooked small toe With magic shrinking toenail. Let’s say I go back to your bedroom. Let’s say I find you there, thoughContinue reading “Forever Child Gemini”

by Aleida M you and i areliving, breathing, aching proofthat there is no way for two objectsto simultaneously occupy the same space. you and i areparallel lines, our slopes equal doomed never to intersectfor all infinity there will be no formationof something pure and new;no marvelous reactionto observe if you and i combine. i haveContinue reading “The Hard Sciences Against Us”

by Tom Fugalli you and i areliving, breathing, aching proofthat there is no way for two objectsto simultaneously occupy the same space. you and i areparallel lines, our slopes equal doomed never to intersectfor all infinity there will be no formationof something pure and new;no marvelous reactionto observe if you and i combine. i haveContinue reading “Ice Fishing”

by Rebecca Brown like i see the person i was and sometimes it takes me a minuteto realize that was me sometimes i am afraid that i amlosing some part of myself like i think there will always be a part of me that wants to be my father’s only daughter,that wants my father toContinue reading “I Don’t Recognize Myself in Old Photographs Anymore”

by Kimberly Ann Southwick but the photos were a hoax, the tilt of the chairagainst the wallpaper pattern made it only lookas though the man were balancing mid-air. spoon-bending too, in a controlled environment, has a historyof failure, yet over a quarter of the population believes if we have a word for somethingit must exist:Continue reading “PSYCHOKENESIS”