Chelsea Harris The Loop Begins Again Maude asked for supper. Eyes cloudy and damp. Outside was bleached in sun, the neighbor’s dog on the porch, yipping at squirrels. We took a bath. Warmth setting behind the trees. Suds clogging up our ears. The stars appeared in a flurry; Maude tucked into bed. Binky between […]
Category: Summer 2021
Cortney Phillips Meriwether – Punch Baby
Cortney Phillips Meriwether Punch Baby Like all responsible first-time parents, we discussed the punches before Reid was even born. The government-issued card would arrive on his first birthday, a list of instructions typed out above the perforated edge, and we wanted to be prepared. Punches are to be used by parents or legal guardians […]
Ploi Pirapokin – Children of Light
Ploi Pirapokin Children of Light Tusuf asks if I’d like to join her in lighting candles. Since March, we’ve been meeting at midnight when the realms reset to collect light, light that adds up to white candles we can offer in the Eye of Eden. Every night, she shows up in a different outfit: […]
Leonore Hildebrandt – Threads
Leonore Hildebrandt Threads Li Wenliang, 12 October 1986 – 7 February 2020. Chinese Internet users have left more than 870,000 comments under Li’s last post on social website Sina Weibo since his passing. (Wikipedia, 25 April 2020) Today sky and water are of the same gray. I wish you could see the […]
Jozie Konczal – When I Play “All Too Well” in the Car in Autumn, I Can Pretend You Are Alive
Jozie Konczal When I Play “All Too Well” in the Car in Autumn, I Can Pretend You Are Alive even I must forfeit every new note written since the rain brought the spring petals to their knees, even if it means never ending autumn, forever watching as the leaves outside our classroom window […]
Luisa Muradyan – Imagine
Luisa Muradyan Imagine You are floating in space and not in that Sandra Bullock and George Clooney looking galactically sexy way but in that my grandmother disappeared when I was a child and I pretended she was abducted by aliens way Imagine that science experiment you did in seventh grade when the teacher […]
Savannah Slone – evergreen.estrogen
Savannah Slone evergreen / estrogen stuck on time lapse wreckage suffocation, time stamp. my baby’s first home a cut out biohazard the walking wilted our body, a peony sterile lining tampon string stark against tan inner thigh re-gardening our spare cosmos mouth prayers an insignificance salt crash cleansed clean undressing the sea […]
Grace H. Zhou – The Canyon Is Not a Metaphor
Grace H. Zhou The Canyon Is Not a Metaphor who are we of rim rock that nature carves yes there are dams like dull scabs terraced we will beg this landscape we will unearth the geology like strata and coils of ossified mollusk we will learn to be unbroken pinned to this lip […]
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Laura Joyce-Hubbard – Precession
Laura Joyce-Hubbard Precession We were peacekeepers. We were heading to war. I call for Combat Entry Checklist. I called for helmet, chin-strap, flak vests, waiting for compass: spinning, steady. I wait for gyros’ spinning, heading to Bosnia, black kevlar in kick window. Kevlar blocked vestibular, the tilt of war. I remember […]
JD Debris – The Voice of Hercules
JD Debris The Voice of Hercules Remembering that heavyweight we’d call Hercules, a mellow steroid fiend who never sparred, just raised barbells ‘til he was swollen as that solemn British killer from Ninja 2: Shadow of a Tear. He’d flex, hit vacuum poses in ringside mirrors, taking photo after photo, & lounge […]
