Two Poems
by E. Kristin Anderson issue 71 a headache, the daughter things started out in shells // I could see the quiet argument //a bad summer to be temporary girls // all sick on the beach // I never stayed before // voice wishful // right away, a cold rain // I found acid sleep […]
Untitled Prose Poem (#1)
Homecoming (Langenthal)
by Daniele Pantano issue 71 The afternoon bell peals the children out of school. They say it’s great to see you after all these years. You can’t look at them. But you believe them. The missing parents are wading through the rust. You can’t make yourself believe in the end of winter. Back in the […]
How I Lost My Mind
by Emerson Henry issue 71 He was the first lover I’d had who only knew me as Emerson; everyone before him had met me as my former self, a girl unsure of her body and desires. The year before I’d come out as non-binary; now, at the beginning of my senior year of college, I […]
Psalm for a Full Tank of Gas
by Joy Clark issue 71 Can we get someone to turn down the music? No, Sam, I am not too drunk to be standing on this chair. Don’t tell me to climb down again. Don’t act like you can’t see that I’m here. I’m here. Here I am to proclaim the fucking miracles of the […]