Between two palm trees thick with starlings the horizon flattens the waves beneath the sea’s heavy rag. Here before we were, the ocean runs downhill from the perpendicular of one …
Transcarpathia (Nathanael O’Reilly)
I. We spent a summer late last century in the former USSR at the confluence of the Tiza and Rika rivers living in a Transcarpathian valley with the mafia the …
Perhaps the Adventure (Les Wicks)
or maybe just the thrushes, their pecks. Paris, 1940. Les Boches have lined up our Gauloises & shot them. Plus the internet hasn’t even been invented. Klaus thinks Feminism is …
The Picketer (Justin Lowe)
I am told there’s been trouble at the plant. they tell me this with that strange mixture of fear and relish so characteristic of the beaten. I am at a …
Lucilia Cuprina — an Ode (SB Wright)
first beat of spring careening down chimney full bore into wall, window pane, again again. daylight moth snared by sun – carry on in vain til spent; flaring, failing filament …
manifest (Melinda Smith)
If you must make me, draw me forth through that needle’s eye have a care for this raw skin what abrades it, how it may be sliced and sutured I …
Irradiate Me (Bruce Saunders)
(edited by Tim Heffernan & Alise Blayney) 20:20 My world is controlled By numbers I see them everywhere Like some numerologist Or lost mathematician Descartes with his planar thought I’m …
Forecast (Jamie Alcock)
I am under the silence of a silent migraine yet before me are seas of blessed days. click. In the future eagles nest in cardboard boxes and women …
Rabbit on the Promenade (Ariel Riveros Pavez)
Rabbit on the Promenade in homage to JS Harry Umwelt of responses and in the substrates below a silt of muted action. There are inaudible gasps bouncing in echo chambers …
Apologies, I forgot you exist (Fleur Beaupert)
On the verge of this sheer pink dress fits my childhood fantasy glass slipper | Inside it I’m so brown I’m clear White gold un dress | B(l)onded into celibacy …