water fills your mouth as your glass eyes stare from underneath the tap — the old tub holds you cold and mute and your back’s warmth leaches clockwise down the …
Garage [hat] (Ivy Alvarez)
cold creeps in—a song seeps through the cracks it depends on your neck the tie of your knot how your toes swing your fingertips tingle your tongue says the …
Politics of Meat (Shane Jesse Christmass)
I am not eating anymore meat no bleating sheep diced & impaled on my spork but I haven’t got a problem with them German Cannibals that pop up …
The Cosmos Revisited (Alicia Sometimes)
‘If we go far enough back, any two people on Earth have a common ancestor’ Carl Sagan I sit with a postcard that a friend has sent me from Izmir …
Darkest Blue (Tara Mokhtari)
I wish I were at some bar in hell where the whiskey burns but I’m drunk and I’m dead and the heat is a charring change from this place in …
Someone Else (Tara Mokhtari)
So Mister long dark long hair Mister heroin cheeks you’re back in my town tonight curing me from everyman with that sweet charm injection calm and loving embracive rejection …
Transition (Sonja Meyer)
____A swing ___________set ____________________in a playground __________________________________in a park ________________________________________under a full moon and the empty swing …
Gather, Darkness (Jeremy Balius)
Part 1 When misery’s your partner, love’s just give and take to the sound of the window pane a-shudderin’. Gather, Darkness! and play your songs of heartache. Music box hums …
I shoot you at the pond (Nathan Curnow)
for Kevin Brophy ideas grow like goldfish in proportion to the space they are given you return home from your morning swim still dripping from professor to friend, breakfast begins …