Category: Poetry

Register of Futures: Florida

Jessica Guzman Alderman   1. The limestone crevasse like stale bread & phosphogypsum butter,                                    one drawn gulp under a power...

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lIght bird

Matt Trease   This Light Within Dirt This living grid in midnight dining with tiny bird pickings this trick within thinking   Light Trip Within Bird Cry 1. within this lightning 2. with...

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MS Nocturne Without a Magician

Emily Rose Cole   Night of hacksaw wind & tick-fat moon, of dog groan & failed medication, night I’m filling with letters to the body I can’t sleep in: Dear body,     get your shit...

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Constellation of a Missing Girl

Anita Olivia Koester   after Jamaal May   Girl with glitter wings painted on either cheek, spread purple up cheek bones. Girl with pink ribbons tied to handle bars, girl with purple bike...

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cesarean vegetarian

Dylan Krieger   and then the oinklets wriggle out of me in all their mammary glamor, in their interminable gallows laugh of nothing left but bereft receptacles and pentacles that lift. on top of...

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Handfast

Victoria Bosch Murray   This really happened. Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway when she was three months pregnant, six years his senior. My sister loved quartz when she was still...

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a foreign couple

Laura Buccieri   eats ice cream in the snow in february in new york because they’re on vacation and nothing else matters except that they are not where they normally are something else is...

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Grouping

Caroline Chavatel   Around the corner, a photograph of a painting of a meteorite and behind it, a childhood swirled into color. The debris is the art, surviving impact. Outside is a security...

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Morphology

Jessica Lee   As a child, I called all beautiful creatures she: mallard         ducks with emerald heads, male peacocks with their royal trains. All caterpillars, likewise, were women,...

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Death in a Fig

Peter Streckfus   1. We’ll eat figs, black ones, dried while it rains outside, while it rains through the doors and windows There will be very little speaking during the meal mostly tasting...

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