Two Short Films

Jeffrey ThompsonAugust 25, 2022

1. In seventh grade they showed us a movie, black and white with no words. A poor old lady in Paris cherishes a bean plant that she keeps on a windowsill ...

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Strawberry canyon

Kaleigh SpollenAugust 22, 2022

The landlady named the dog Seven for a reason unknown to us. It was a beautiful name still. Sometimes that’s how it works. The pet lay dreaming always by the...

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LUCID

Zoe Contros KearlAugust 17, 2022

This year the ticks emboldened as leaves greened, emboldened as leaves went gold. Nine degrees last night, French inhale mentholated vapor, scroll ...

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January means “month name” on nameberry.com

Aileen O’DowdAugust 11, 2022

January Jones’ mother named January Jones after January Wayne from Once Is Not Enough, a 1973 novel by Jacqueline Susann. Jacqueline Susann. Not to be confused ...

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i’m so sorry about all the nostalgia I just left at your door

Erin MizrahiAugust 8, 2022

remember when everyone was watching heroes on divx / or megavideo / or whatever / u have an ibook //  plz don’t google ibook // there’s a general sense of optim...

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Dino-Friendly Prom

Jessica GleasonAugust 2, 2022

In my dreams, I’m dancing with a dinosaur whose arms are never long enough to fully enclose me, whose skin scratches my naked arms like a sequined-nightmar...

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THE GUTS OF 80s KIDS

Jessica ManackJuly 31, 2022

Our Tanged intestines sparkle. We survived, guts Gonzo Graped and Purplesaurus Rexed. No one had heard of Yellow Number 5. Our mothers always tried to do th...

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On Plagiarising the Afternoon of the 30th of May 2021

Brighton GraceJuly 25, 2022

Children corkscrewing into an oblivion, launched from A jumping castle at a birthday party during a dust bowl. My shadow still on the tangerine hills, Crack...

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Capturing a sunset on an iPhone 6

Lucia GallipoliJuly 11, 2022

the sky fades to pink & you’re the orange enveloping it I record your glow in blue light knowing you’ll soon recede when I show my friends I swear ...

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Rainbow Skyline

Michelle DrozdickJuly 5, 2022

We drove from East 91st Street and 2nd Avenue All the way to your place in the middle of Brooklyn The night gay marriage was legalized. The Manhattan skyli...

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suddenly free to make steak and a music video

Teddy VrountasJune 28, 2022

poured some red wine i bought for the date who canceled. signed up for a CrossFit class. said out loud, “we all die alone.” said out loud again, “we all di...

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Moon Sirens Drink Taco Bell Cheese Sauce

Kelli LageJune 24, 2022

Horizon lit by flickers of a Taco Bell sign. Magenta and navy hues seep into my face. The lowest fragment of midnight. I wonder if these unworshipped grounds...

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SUCCESS AND THE CITY

Nicolette ReimJune 21, 2022

It’s winter and the next-door neighbor wants to take his dog to work, gets a wagon with a plastic top, attaches it to a bicycle. They take off. The asymmetr...

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On My Mind at 2 AM

Jeana MahanJune 7, 2022

Google search 1/21/22 2:06 am   Am I too old for a sugar daddy?   Google search 1/30/22 2:09 am   Is Tinder worth it?   Goog...

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Ethically Speaking

Meghann BoltzMay 29, 2022

What you want from the center of the flower would be considered extortion & I have a headache. I want to make you sick so you can feel how I feel. No oth...

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All There Is

Michelle DrozdickMay 26, 2022

Little girl hypnotized by dust particles floating in a beam of light Realizing she exists and finding it beautifully absurd...

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Sidewalk Pool

Nathan TompkinsMay 24, 2022

There was a perfect “V” in the front yard sidewalk, two slabs of white concrete dug into the earth, bordered by dirt and sod when the summer rains hit,...

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Three Poems That Have Something (Or Nothing) To Do With Love

Benjamin DavisMay 20, 2022

Mad Science   She’s been naked, all cool, calm, and sexy, for the past hour. I start thinking something nefarious might be going on like, maybe s...

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After Tinder Date #7

Alison LubarMay 18, 2022

You're going to cry on the train again. What city rails haven’t been slicked with your sadness? Charter bus, airplane, no polyester velvet seat is safe...

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How To Take Advice

Rhienna Renée GuedryMay 12, 2022

Advice comes in two kinds: that which looks good in calligraphy, and that which stabs. One is eat-pray-love and it’s bullshit. Keep a dream journal. Swallow the...

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The Dark Universe

Max SternbaumApril 22, 2022

the rationalists speak of a mystery something they can’t solve that imbues our natural history and drives us to evolve it’s the Dark Universe made up of Da...

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You Don’t See Them Around Much Anymore

Tim JervisApril 19, 2022

The scale trade emerged as a promising enterprise due to European demand for hats made from lake monster pelts. Two men established a mobile trading post. The H...

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Old Tony’s Sunday

Mathieu CaillerApril 18, 2022

The musician at the deserted bar gets up to do his usual Sunday set from six p.m. to midnight. In his early 70s, he’s been doing this for the last 50 years, onl...

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Working at a Strip-club in the Middle of the Midwestern Rural

Brianne AgnizleApril 14, 2022

The snow shoved off by a plow fills in the ditch now, over where I’d seen a wild dog sleeping for weeks. On the drive home the night is dark like sap...

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going to acapulco

w v sutraApril 13, 2022

holding my fate in both my hands waiting for captain waiting for orders overboard i must and will be thrown oh let me fly to my duties lord revenants of ...

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If there be nothing new, but that which is

Victoria NordlundApril 7, 2022

After Sonnet 59 William, In this miracle composed of your frame, I am here writing over your sonnet in spring 2022. On my TikTok feed someone is trying to...

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THREE CONTEMPORARY CONUNDRUMS RESOLVED

Julie BeneshMarch 29, 2022

I. Adjustment Disorder How is being well-adjusted not just settling at best And lacking empathy at worst Like those people who suddenly think We all...

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Wreck

Luke WortleyMarch 25, 2022

A carnival prize torn open in a field, little fuzzes everywhere. A concrete mixer on the back of a truck whirring lazily. A suboptimal play in a board game. A f...

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First Pay The Rent

T.S.J. HarlingMarch 21, 2022

I Wanting Spending And nothing more Cash in brown envelopes At the end of evenings behind the bar Spent on the other side of other bars Clothes Drinks...

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Anti-capitalist poem comprised of parsed Jeff Bezos quotes

Elizabeth ConardMarch 21, 2022

What’s going to change in the next 10 years? How will you use your gifts? What choices will you make? If we want to be understood, maintain a firm grasp o...

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