By: Paul Ilechko Various They met at various times for some version of various meaning     perhaps     derived from “variety”     or just...

By: Helena Lipstadt Speaking to the Dead Let me not be thief of your story   let me paint a still life of names   you stand over and...

By: Emily Bornstein I watched when Whitman marbled the Body Electric. As the queer men dazzled behind him, they called not for the meek...

By: W. Vandoren Wheeler IMAGINARY ART PROJECT: Architecture I nibbled stale bread into a house the shape of our house. Two sesame seeds,...

By: Stephanie Garon Acreage Right past Caleb’s cotton fields, dusty White clouds turn auburn soil into candy canes. Clifford Hubbard’s...

By: Beth Ruscio Christmas Macanudo He’s got holly stabbed in the crown of his thumb-pressed fedora, lays bets on long shots, hard eights...

By: Joie Filippini She reconstructed her desecrated temple for my body, stitched trident wounds closed, kissed my bruised eyelids, combed...

By: Jessica Dionne In the Tall Grass I have hidden your keys in the pocket of my green dress and so you follow me in. The car is pulled...

By: Robert Lavett Smith AMONG THE MORE DISTURBING ARTIFACTS Then there’s the new moon— like a button torn from the suit you’ll be buried...

By: Claire T. Jennings I say “Can you open the circles?” And realize my mistake as my husband turns the slow turn of the concerned and I...

By: Alice Sanford We’re in writing class at Vine Street Christian Church, When a dark Hell’s Angel swaggers in and asks, “Is this essay?”...

By: Valerie Little Timor mortis conturbat me But, we’ll be forever this age 37 and 42 now that we’ve had the last smile     word laugh   ...

By: Allissa Hertz You’re standing and your falling. passively. On the edge of nowhere is your own voice leaking out of your body in a...

By: Scott Ferry The woman I dated when I was 27 used to explain that her father communicated with her through streetlights, hallway...

By: James Zaferopolos You hear the twitter of them, off, the furies, as they drift, Descending to the water, slowly, like a flock of...

By: M Zaman Sly and stealthy, like your other brethren you too have jumped from host to human; (an animal, rogue  with a wrathful ruse,...

By: Matthew Feinstein I.  The way she stroked my hair. II. The country songs she played in the car. III. Her browning lawn. IV. A wool...

By: Robert Eugene Rubino Wrestling vs. Boxing (or Silliness vs. Seriousness vs. Dead Seriousness) It’s false, it’s fake, it’s fantasy,...

By: Jordan Crook Excepting the snowy slick / asphalt I’d hit / the speed limit / and not creep quietly by / the full funeral home /...

By: Kaitlin Kerr 1. Ink on fingertips dissolving. I find a teabag, three hours later, cold and brittle. I’m regretting with a sigh that’s...

By: Ilari Pass He said: “You sure look familiar.  Don’t I know you?” And by familiar, he meant somebody  used to stand naked before him...

By: Bobby Mullan C:\Users\Robert> //break loop example #include <iostream> using lamespace std; int main ( ) { do { with eyes closed,...

By: Monica Stevens-Kirby The day after summer, skies fall in, walls close round, like June is the name of your only girl, coiled-tight...

By: Melissa Evans here deliquesce here deliquescing heat hustled by the moor’s bold breath has brittled this dale to dust here fell...