Sarah Hutchins “Magic Trick”
Sarah Hutchins Magic Trick Move me to the brink of my seat, fingers clutching the edge, transport me elsewhere, where I can taste the grit swirling in the air, feel the callused palm of the character’s...
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Sarah Hutchins Marionettes We are a pair of dolls, both familiar and strange, acting out old roles in a new dollhouse, under the whim of a lording child. More than you probably wanted to know about...
View ArticleMark Young “Intimidation”
Mark Young Intimidation She left gaps in the con- versation to be filled with his guilt. Mark Young‘s most recent book is bricolage which came out from gradient books of Finland in April. His chapbook...
View ArticleMark Young “Meanwhile, on PBS”
Mark Young Meanwhile, on PBS Today’s episode of Sesame Street is brought to you by the Church of the Letter D Saints. Mark Young‘s most recent book is bricolage which came out from gradient books of...
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Mark Young: 2 Poems from “A FEW GEOGRAPHIES”
Mark Young 2 Poems from “A FEW GEOGRAPHIES” Corinth In a speech to the veterans of the Peloponnesian Wars, The President admitted victory would have been difficult had he not had access to Battlefield...
View ArticleRoberta Beary “Pillow Talk”
Roberta Beary Pillow Talk Deep in marsh reeds far from our village your newborn son sleeps beside Bashō’s frog. Roberta Beary identifies as gender-expansive, and writes to connect with the...
View ArticleKeith Nunes “Oceanic”
Keith Nunes Oceanic He lies in waves one beach-break after another drowning the poor woman in salted bullshit. Keith Nunes is still alive and that’s surprising to many people, most of all himself.
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Howie Good: 2 poems from “Still Running”
Howie Good Two Poems from “Still Running” Writer’s Block Inside my head, there’s a great silence, a refrigerated, cellophane-wrapped rose. Tinnitus: A Love Song It’s something only I can hear and...
View ArticleCody Badaracca “Terra Incognita”
Cody Badaracca Terra Incognita It doesn’t matter which way you run, the earth will swallow you before you reach the edges of the map. Cody Badaracca is still ambulatory and perfusing blood in Oklahoma...
View ArticleDevon Balwit “Perverse”
Devon Balwit Perverse Another global hacker has locked hard drives, asking $300 in Bitcoin to liberate files, and I wonder whether I should, instead, beg them to freeze mine, and thus return to an age...
View ArticleDevon Balwit “Now I Have What Once I Wanted”
Devon Balwit Now I Have What Once I Wanted When young, I envied the character-filled hands of the old, with their ropey veins and swollen knuckles, so unlike my smooth doll-baby hands, as yet unproven....
View ArticleDevon Balwit “The End”
Devon Balwit The End We clean the rental house before we go, regretfully, room by room, gathering up all we brought, much as we will do with our bodies when it is time. Devon Balwit is fighting the...
View ArticleDevon Balwit “Conditional”
Devon Balwit Conditional When the dog ate my French novel, I was mad, but when it ate my bra, I was not even sorry. Devon Balwit learned late in life that she is a sucker for dogs.
View ArticleDevon Balwit “Saint Jude”
Devon Balwit Saint Jude Always scavenging, my husband cannot say no to a free box, arms spilling castoffs, broken things, books in languages he cannot even read. Devon Balwit religiously guards her one...
View ArticleMonica Flegg “Conservative Measures”
Monica Flegg Conservative Measures I too trim stems of lilies, delphinium and trillium, delaying beauty’s inevitable fade. Monica Flegg isn’t aging as gracefully as tulips do, but she’s trying.
View ArticleMunira Sayyid “Answers my mother expects”
Munira Sayyid Answers my mother expects I married him because our nose rings matched and he said, my eyes held rainbows that didn’t die with the sun. Munira Sayyid writes because she does not like...
View ArticleTodd Mercer “Collect”
Todd Mercer Collect I called Eddie Kendricks when I felt all hope was gone and Eddie to his credit mumbled heartfelt support like it wasn’t 3 a.m. in Detroit, Michigan. Todd Mercer coined the popular...
View ArticleTodd Mercer “DEFCON 1”
Todd Mercer DEFCON 1 “Jesus wept,” Mom said, that prominent forehead vein flexing as her offspring scattered to the four points of the compass, no one lingering to see the explosion, or what landed...
View ArticleTodd Mercer “Skewering”
Todd Mercer Skewering “Stab me once, shame on you…” says my shrink-friend, voting for divorce over patching up, while we grill a ton of meat for his umpteen teenage offspring, “…fewer punctures =...
View ArticleMichael Dwayne Smith “I wanted to be”
Michael Dwayne Smith I wanted to be a young woman leaping from a tall building, which I cannot do because my body is made of sky and to fall through myself is what makes me a man, this dying upward....
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