No One is Taking the Doughnut Shortage Seriously (and all that that implies)
— or the ketchup packet oneover in the adjacent deli, the dearth of good strawberri... Read More.
This disappearing, how it makes house become island, as inland pushes outland. Outlandish, you say, this push and pull—in your hurricane’s eye, everything calms... Read More.
I want my story to be ordinary. for Andrea C. Ruiz Costas and Keishla M. Rodríguez Ortiz
Nicole Arocho Hernández grew up in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico... Read More.
In Bad Faith
Elsewhere a bell rings medieval in its calling and here
I fumble for a reliquary, any bit of cloth or bone
my religion left m... Read More.
Quail rise in ruffles from the sage. Pebbles I scraped into my knee look like they belong there. A minor abrasion, something to settle with alcohol. My pants c... Read More.
by Michael Frazier
My students & co-workers worry if I return to America, I’ll catch COVIDor a bullet in my back. I runalong the Asano river &... Read More.
Waterloo
“The opposite of rape is understanding” Duplex, Jericho Brown
i begin as a foreign body.
it is a form of mothering to hurt yourself rather than oth... Read More.
bastard
anjing my mother calls you.how dare you defy what god has given you?
i see what she means. i see your weteyes, mouth hung open, dry panting. you
are ... Read More.
Fruit of the Earth
I have wasted these curses on minor disappointments.
Screwed up in brown paper, rattling in a tin cup,little hollow white thi... Read More.
by Nnadi Samuel
Casualties
retracing frowns is how we forego boundaries, to chase greener passports.on the counter, brittle flesh sit beside waste bi... Read More.
White Vulture
When we raise our hands now, the air is flushwith vacancies. Shapelessness cuts with jagged edges,And we are waiting for something to hol... Read More.
May the Stars Guide You Safely Home
After I call the cops to ask for a protective orderI read about the girlfriend of a serial killer. What she knew,
wha... Read More.
by Jack Chelgren
Today my friend is late9 a.m. a cold spellI go buy a coffeefrom a nice coffee shopwhose walls have a mapexplaining the DirectRelations... Read More.
“Other Names You Have Used Since Birth”
Family Name: 柯
a mouth beganin the south east cornerof the continent wherea tribe of teethonce shared rice un... Read More.
