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by Robyn Campbell Another storm has the neighbors’ chickensall lumped together and subdued, soI can’t hear them from my attic room. Rain has thrown itselffor days against the roof.“What is the cruelest month?” people ask. Last year I watched a manput one poor frozen birdin a garbage bag at the end of winter;it had beenContinue reading “Blackberry Winter”

by E.G. Cunningham End of the year gray. AnchorsWhere balloons should be, or: Could peace wait on the outerBank of sane. How in the holidayBuzz to say nothing for clear, that is: Give me back remembering,Its attendant costumed sting. The portraiture made overkillBy rain. No incoming. The quantumState the same. The slide to black,The self-quilled quellContinue reading “Rayleigh Scattering”

by Mariel Fechik i.In the other world, everything smells like cherries.Every phone call is the news of someone’s death,and every cigarette is candy. In the other world, you tell me you do not love me every day, and ourbed is made from cedar trees. The horses run rider-less and frightened, chased by men with bottles forweaponsContinue reading “Alternate”

by Allison Hummel Part 1: Untitled It was yesterday or something, when I heard the song playing in a store, asking do I make myself a blessing to everyone I meet? I don’t sing it to myself, exactly, but I do repeat it, metallic gyre, all the day long. In the at-home lab of an electrical engineer,IContinue reading “Rocket”

by Cathleen Allyn Conway The town knows about darkness, the slithered purple that comes on the land when rotation hides the sun.Something gathered, slow and heavy and electric, almost as though the town knows evil is coming, and its shape. From here we can’t see spots on the sun. We know where the roads go and where, howContinue reading “The Rising”

by Aleida M we’re crying in a costco parking lot fiending for that intimacy we once feltbecause every so often we lose it andthen i get depressed when i think you deserve much better sometimes i think i deserve better too most of the time it feels like i am already holding all the good that’s out therelargeContinue reading “we’re on a roller coaster, i’m nauseous but i don’t wanna get off”

by Melissa Eleftherion the ammonite an index of suturesi got tired of cataloging themhermetically sealing little traumasafraid they’d get to know one another go boomlittle mother catastrophes insteadi smashed little rocks to bits in a ditcheach shard a memory released pressurefrom stomach the common burial groundthe cavity of accumulationeach little box coated in dust andContinue reading “Ammonite Sonnet”

by Emily S. Cooper He had created a type of 3d paint,was one of the first things he told us. As we followed him upstairs to his plantfilled apartment, we decided he was lying. It wasn’t long until he told us about Mexico;kidnapped by cartels, held hostage for weeks, his father and grandfather were mercenariesinContinue reading “Marseille”

by Wimpy AF “when you see a mountain coming,get out of it’s way.”my uncle, six-two and oxentold me after clipping my wing. i learn at an early ageto be a black manis to see a black manand fear his size, momentum. to love a black man is to seehis shape and surrender.i lay myself downonContinue reading “Say Uncle”