memorial coin a rainbow of magic possums plays ring-a-rosie on the $2 coin she passes for the boat ride to free- dom saying listen listen to me listen to the …
Observance (Anne Casey)
To stand naked on cold stone Emptied cups cascading Past unblinded eyes As hands and feet are washed Within a sea concentric circles pooled As beneath the welling surface A …
Serpent (Anna Jacobson)
By the time I see you, seventy-one angels have descended from heaven, chopped off your hands and feet, split your tongue. You crawl along your belly. Vanish. By the time …
Poems from Diaspora (Ivy Alvarez)
*Ligaw-insik Maybe we can be together. Maybe I can say the words. What can I whisper? My shoes brace against the metal gate. I am a key now and somehow …
there is no way to repair shadows while we’re alive (Nathan Shepherdson)
i heat the stone until its eye opens invite its callus-scraped duct to extrude lava in sentences memory magma pushes through an axial sleeve from a thousand miles down to …
The Come Down (Kerri Shying)
Choosing Earring swishing fell from favour when the big fake ear vaginas started to get stretched in all good ears round town a whole damn generation missing the sensation of …
Spirit Maps: Cycles of Renewal (Juno Gemes & Robert Adamson)
Juno Gemes: I searched for a printer in photogravure for over twenty years before finding master printer Lothar Ostenberg. The photogravure process, which sees photographs etched into copper and printed …
Deadspeak (Jennifer Liston)
Deadspeak Lycanthrope It’s that time of the month again: time to open the lowest drawer of the dustiest dresser. Sit awhile. Gaze at gauze enfolding precious. Peel it back, fingers …
Portrait of a Departed Lady (Amanda Anastasi)
Funeral plans: a wall crypt underneath her mother’s; pink roses on the pew ends. A house-size increase upon the exodus of children, husband, friends, dissention. Her disdain for the coverings …
Oh Lucky Me (Jill Jones)
Inside me is stuff I’m not sure anyone can explain. Each day another statistic dances as a testament to clickbait and big Pharma. So what are all my chemicals doing …