By: Maria Prudente Tonight, we split the fear of our lives toward the exhausted sky desperately as a bull, forcing his horns into flesh....

By: JC Reilly the next time | someone | perhaps you | my friend | tells me that fat | is bad | that I could be so pretty || if || I lost...

By: Dan Raphael Given the weather the long expired warranty removing one shirt to find another when i can’t read the bus’s destination...

By: Heather Quinn after torrin a. greathouse i examine the bones of an incandescent bulb, crystalline glass, base & socket, thin wiry v ...

By: Samantha Tkac We agree that it was just a kiss. That the kiss was innocent, which means it wasn’t. I’m supposed to scoff over scones...

By: Matthew Corsi These organics return for the night shift Breath smoke laced, skin dead dry, eyes glazed with carbon monoxide....

By: Karla Khine The cache of red and black that rests in my attic never bleeds. I Its dimensions are endless, and I hope the company of...

By: Jacob Weil In that quiet was a something, Pinprick black shoelaces swimming lazily in the swamp, never breaking the surface. The man...

By: Caitlin Ferguson Letter for the End of the World [Redacted] Listen, I tried to unmake [ ] the little apartment trees bent over and so...

By: Lyall Harris for Savia I didn’t know it would be this season or that I would be standing on the shore while she wandered into the...

By: Elizabeth Lorayne She takes my hand And guides it away— Away from the trigger Of the cold steel That lies in my sweaty Palm. Yet...

By: Ashley Sapp “Gaping, Girl" We hiked in the dead of summer, dead on our feet, dead ahead. We felt between our breasts and swiped at...

By: Walter Weinschenk “Yesterday, I walked along the empty corridor that lies behind my consciousness and opened up a door – And what I...

By: Lee Landau [ the poet consoles herself] All night I wept tears searing my face— not the body, not sleep interfered. “Not the dog...

By; Derek Thomas Dew Falling denser. Smoke trees with trees. Winter comes to a balloon a town is unable to chase. Again, what isn’t you...

By: Anne Kwok Aftermath of a Horror Film This scene ends with a woman walking into the sea & you look sideways at my reaction– as if I’ve...

By: Michael Lasater Locked Down You sit in a room, subtracted, stranded – a knot of words dreamt in fractured sleep. You avoid risk,...

By: Rasha Alduwaisan Finger Spaces abirdinapot words need to breathe        my love they need space          try again this...

By: Jonathan Mundell my brother and Dave carry a canoe to the lake— the underside in the sun and light explodes across the silver like...

By: Grace Miskovsky it happens more from inside a colored glass lightbulb it happens more when venus has risen over an ombre sky when the...

By: Shon Mapp Find me on the ocean floor, undulating against marine tides. Is this the birthplace of invisibility? Where life is only an...

By: M.J. Stratton Eros (Adorer/ L’amour) I there is a moon thickening crooning gripping along my neck the womb where I grow ...

By: Phil Carson Reine de l’Acool, My Queen Southern Comfort. Beautiful, Naked, mute, & motionless. Many place their lips on yours & drink...

By: Ann Pedone there are these times when the world insists on making meaning don’t turn this into an abstraction my hand down here...