Dame à la Capuche | Moon Cycle

Sonya VatomskyMarch 1, 2015

Dame à la Capuche   Living is long hair, unmanageable in mornings and hanging around like a shadow, a family name, an unshakeable identity you sha...

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Secular Penance

Blake WallinMarch 1, 2015

Secular Penance   so quiet on this unit but a girl took her life here – accidents happen.   I think back on threefold therapy, Ma...

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THEY HAD FUCKED ONCE, BUT NOW | FUSEBOX | AS IF I TOO

Yosef RosenMarch 1, 2015

THEY HAD FUCKED ONCE, BUT NOW   —their tongues were ossified, throats sewn   into stone sarcophagi, cemented shut with recollection’s s...

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Sit-ups

Cassandra VerhaegenMarch 1, 2015

sit-ups   familiar voices crooning their throats cool against coat hangers eat that romanticized orange and pick the peels apart with knives until the ...

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Territory | Embers

Terrell Jamal TerryMarch 1, 2015

Territory    Toy hugs and sex can’t heal the flat way I fell. But a scarf of dust is enough to grind through this soft ground. In a bleeding dream my...

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WEIGHTS AND MEASURES OF NAMES

Jake MatkovMarch 1, 2015

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES OF NAMES   A body found stuck to Hello My Name Is sticker. Fag. Gay. Queer.   Hours rearranging words tacked to...

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Synthesis

Dan JacobyFebruary 1, 2015

Synthesis   excised synthetic sweat in a shot glass perspiration of cage fighters, lovers somehow collected at climax using gas chromatogra...

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Buffalo Poems

Matthew ColemanFebruary 1, 2015

  Crowded Winter     She stole the car to protest sleep’s abandonment. The ovation was given when the middle of winter found his vo...

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Night of The Full Moon | As Soon As I Step Away

Jorge SanchezFebruary 1, 2015

  Night of the Full Moon   I have nothing to write except the rattle against the window, the sound of encroaching winter. The gra...

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600 Characters

Michael HyltonFebruary 1, 2015

600 Characters   I’m on the wrong side of the road my drive-thru coffee is going cold I check my phone once more rather than look out ahead...

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Motel Memory 1

Carly WeiserFebruary 1, 2015

Motel Memory 1   There’s got to be some kind of award for driving past motel memories, Freckled cotton sheets and hairballs on the pavement. We n...

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On The Recreation of Collective Youth

Tyler TreleaseJanuary 1, 2015

On The Recreation of Collective Youth   What do we call this humble And insane collection of souls? They who crawled out from the edges of suburban mas...

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Five Poems By Emily Blair

Emily BlairJanuary 1, 2015

Iowa or somewhere like it   forty seven & some change & no change has come in all the time I’ve watched corn & children born, bloom...

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Mirror Earth | Catherine Zeta-Narcissist

Marie Coma-ThompsonJanuary 1, 2015

Mirror Earth        We were bored   So the rapists       mowed the lawns So we were all captains    of a land ...

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Drug Study (lab rat)

Kat MooreJanuary 1, 2015

Drug Study (lab rat)   I look up my symptoms    heart flutter murmur ache in chest The ribavirin blues are gone now    seeped out    like UFOs my leg s...

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Four Poems by Yun Wei

Yun WeiJanuary 1, 2015

Unpublished Diaries of The Philae   four billion miles later I thirst for a pinch                  a hurt   ...

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THE INFLUENCE OF AN INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS EDUCATION ON A FREELANCE JOURNALIST

Gary SinghJanuary 1, 2015

THE INFLUENCE OF AN INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS EDUCATION ON A FREELANCE JOURNALIST   I. Medieval School Rankings   generic factory synth patches con...

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1 Study, 3 Cures, and A Ritual

Lex BobrowDecember 1, 2014

Heat Study   Fragile peonies grow from newfound subdermal magma. The gentlest wind rustles the petals into a swarm, rendering mirrors useless. This...

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The Rains Came

Charles Bane JrDecember 1, 2014

The Rains Came   The rains came and we were kept inside; it felt right to be eclipsed for the first time, to be engulfed and you close...

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North America’s Wearing Blue Jeans (for Mac DeMarco)

Justin KarcherDecember 1, 2014

North America's Wearing Blue Jeans (for Mac DeMarco)   Authorities found your body near an overgrown pond. You had been decomposing for about two we...

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Sitting with Dōgen

Cameron ConawayDecember 1, 2014

Sitting with Dōgen   It’s Christmas time here and now at Walmart Jesus is everywhere.   He’s the treasury of the eye in the cashier ...

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A Better Rebel

Karen LittleNovember 5, 2014

A Better Rebel   He demands we breach boundries beyond the call-out.   To remain present in the conversation, he prompts anyon...

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Holy Devils | Blood Crime Pieces | Aggressiveness Of Century

Seyed Morteza HamidzadehNovember 5, 2014

Holy Devils   Holy devils, Are guardians of prostitutes alleys
 In this way The residents of anger and wrath Are godess that their wildly nei...

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The Dustbin of History | In Defense of Tyrants

Craig KurtzNovember 5, 2014

The Dustbin of History   When in dire times all hope expires fate may fain the jester play and lease another act upon those characters wh...

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London | Fat Lies of Autochthony

David AndrewsNovember 5, 2014

London   Just another city not an Other city. Here, as there word is street what stone took from street as word is gristle what bone took fro...

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Comrades | Taking Frank Bidart’s Killing Stick

Anna WalshNovember 5, 2014

COMRADES     Comrades! rage on lend me your fears and lets to the black dawn bend   to battle! arm yourself in war. make metal a god sh...

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State Appeal

Debra HannaNovember 5, 2014

STATE APPEAL   I was watching the news on TV today. Hearing discerning words come my way. They talk of the terrible things leading people to be...

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When the Apocalypse Came

Vijayalakshmi HarishNovember 5, 2014

When the Apocalypse Came     there was no fire no hail no disease no insanity the earth did not heave the skies did not fail the seas did not ...

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Three Sisters | Darkness Ages Slowly

Omer ZamirNovember 5, 2014

Three Sisters   Three sisters welcomed back from war a brother just as kind and beautiful as he was before they watched him sail off towards times k...

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Four Yelp Reviews

J. BradleyOctober 2, 2014

Yelp Review - Sci Fi City We wanted to shower those we had crushes on with pelts of imaginary animals, make a catwalk from the bones of our enemies; we didn’...

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