ON BEING ALONE by Katherine Ault
Voicemail
Listening is not hearing.Like a wind that is slowly nearingthat never hits your face.What I want is for my words to meet your embrace.Not to be fixed or...
ROSARY IN VACUUM by Shivangi Mishra
I. What Colour is Peace and Home?
Is it to consume the gothic or expend the sublime?Would coloured value survive in white that seethes number?For all known times, when...
REFLECTION by Jane Muschenetz
Miracles Previously Unnoticed
I longed for poetry and doom-scrolleduntil headlines separated from the screen and breathedin sighs, like teenagers,we sent each other music audio filesand slowly began to speak...
THE BODY NEEDS BLOOD by Ruth Niemiec
The Body Needs Blood
My father smoked cigarettes,pack a day,enough to punctuate every sentence with a coughI began to wait for a cough at the end of each sentenceSome...
THE SADDEST THING I’VE EVER SEEN by David Lenna
The Saddest Thing I’ve Ever Seen (Chapter I)
My left palm still hurts. Going, preparing without a backpack on my back. My left palm still hurts so much that...
ABSENT by Aracelly Campo
The Institution
by Aracelly P. Campo
Love-the grand illusionTheatrical spectacle presented to us on an empty stageTransaction driven unions that dictate the roles we are to...
THEME FOR THE ETERNAL NOW by John Sweet
why i dreamt of the west coast
a suicide maybe
bitter taste ofabandoned hope
says he hates her saysshe hates him and then...
DALI by A.B. Emrys
DALI SET
Self-Portrait 1921, Salvador Dalí
out of cross-hatchshadow from underthat battered hat brimcast your cool eyeon everything more weightythan my usual fluxsmoke one last pipefor...
ODE TO THE WIND by Jamie Gibbons
ODE TO THE WIND
To the wind,I wonder, where you're goingWhere you've beenYou've blown across mountains, forests, seasYou've blown across polar ice caps & cities of treesYou've blown in...
ON THE BASIS OF SELFLOVE by Ann Huang
The Rights of A Girl
In summer solstice, lightning in midnightpulls you from cosmos—rain stormsthe waterscapesYou walk backward, making space aboutthe need to start becoming. To thosewhom you see...
