A POEM WHEREIN I TRY, AND FAIL, TO IDENTIFY MY TUESDAY GENDER by Quinn Rennerfeldt Have you ever been forced ...
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LEAVE NO TRACE by Robin Neidorf  the full moon rises in the cleft .................................between rock and green-turning- gold on gravel ...
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DON’T KICK THE DOG by Phillip Schaefer Just last week doves glued to the beach, stuck between physics and chemistry ...
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EVEN THE DOGS by Ronda Broatch The horses hid the day I walked out to pasture to catch my appaloosa ...
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BREAKFAST SOLILOQUY by William Erickson After breakfast I discovered an accretion disk around the empty container of raspberries, an iridescent ...
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REGENERATION by Brenda Taulbee I want to put my head down .........................and sleep like I used to know ....................................how to ...
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SHOW TUNES by Julie Benesh My ex- husband texting quotations, marked: “I know all about your standards…” Because July: .............Music ...
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I AM LOSING MY HANDS. by Kelley White The right hand middle finger middle joint swollen. I can almost see ...
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TEENAGE ASTRONOMY by Karin Wraley Barbee Men watch her from her ceiling, Cepheus and Hercules, pressed there by a girl ...
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BEND AND TOUCH THE GRASS by Peter Grandbois Though the house is quiet another day nearly .............snuffed out Shadows slipping ...
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THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW by Maddie Baxter My left leg is an eroded coastline. Squeeze my thigh to ...
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MONOCULAR by Tingyu Liu Remembering, still: Sunday egg scrambles, green ..............peppers and sharp cheddar adorning ..............our fingers, coffee pot chuckling ...
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SILVER FALLS by Melody Wilson We have driven east this bright afternoon, the two of us, young parents on a ...
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BIOLUMINESCENCE by Sara Mae The pregnancy scare skulks through bay grasses. It tips us over like cows & drains our ...
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SURVIVOR GUILT by Melody Wilson My sister slept in the laundry room, the door fastened by a cinch strap and ...
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FLOUNDER by Tom Laichas i The fingertips know things. Their ridged whorls .... confess... the ... whole.. body’s whereabouts. The fingernails ...
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flats by Danny Cooper hot sand and grainy glass yours is packed like clay me i grab some seashells and ...
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manic / depressive by Savannah Slone i only exist in spectrum extremes floating amongst personality binaries hard cut offs........ prescription ...
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NITS by Marsha Blitzer The native mums told me it was inevitable, ..............................................................nobody’s fault. ....................In the changing room ..............................................................they swapped ...
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Shelter by Esther Ra Every evening before we climb into the car, I tap the hood politely, and wait for ...
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SMALL CONSOLATION by Diana Rickard you make an offering to posterity  ghastly aesthetic cauterizes the virile  there is a corniness ...
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Paper mache on the drain by Soheon Rhee The day of Chuseok, I remember that you wanted to cut my ...
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AT A CAFÉ IN VICTORIA, BC TWO GREY-HAIRED MEN TALK ABOUT LOVE by Kate Peterson She’s in the garden all ...
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LAST GESTURE by James Miller We eat on the porch when evening heat recedes. Lamps hang from the oak. The ...
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LITTLE GRIEF SONG, JULY 2020 by Laura Tanenbaum “But the great dark birds of history screamed and plunged into our ...
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I AM THAT GROUP OF PICTURES OF SPIDERWEBS MADE BY SPIDERS ON DIFFERENT DRUGS by Valerie Loveland Scientists call everything ...
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AMMONITES by Ann de Forest mountains once were ocean  evidence coils beneath our feet  prehistoric curlicues  not yet nautilus  not ...
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BEING WHOLE AFTER A DIAGNOSIS by Anthony Aguero I. Diagnosis Someone likens your body to soured-meat, Flies swarming the thighs, ...
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THE SECOND STEP by Meggie Royer That night, the door so waterlogged with rain it stuck for hours, hinges flush ...
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AS TRANSPARENT AS IT GETS by Heikki Huotari             Just because you're parasailing doesn't mean this call's not coming from ...
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DISSECTION by Amy Beth Sisson After school my teacher helped me pull the pink downy breast feathers to clear the ...
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HAVANA, ILLINOIS, AUGUST 2020 by Peter Wear White clouds, so many white clouds pause above August’s green cornfields– an armada ...
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WHERE I WAIT FOR YOU by travis tate The river before anything else, the glazed sun emerging gently from evening ...
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SPEAKING OF SUNFLOWERS by Evan Anders the world is bare bones an orphan after rage relinquishes her arrow. magnolias ago, ...
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my lover starts seeing by Lis Chi Siegel  after a.b. yehoshua’s “facing the forests” my lover starts seeing our house ...
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THE PRICE OF HANDS by Brian Ellis You can try the gloves, but the gloves will work two hours tops ...
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THE ESPERANZA PROJECT Music by Richard Casimir "Antumbra" (poem) by Herman Beavers In classical music, a fermata is a pause ...
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FIELD NOTES FOR THE MAGICIAN: SLEIGHT OF HAND by Rosemary Kitchen I. Mother teaches me to read the ages of ...
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EIDOLON by Nicole Greaves She said there are some things you will always be, like Italian, some skills interchangeable:  folding ...
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Blindness It began with a stove, burnt mahogany dissipates in, wishing the ember hinted the future: mother running out of ...
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Am I the only one in the Cleveland Art Museum today looking for mercy? I’m looking at an artwork about ...
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hands the swaddled child over. A dream is no place for a baby. She has seen revelers pour the baby ...
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out my window colored heads bound in swiftness. in their decision to bring about movement & motion. the snow is ...
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SIX STAGES OF GRIEF I. you are going to a Danish pastry down on Jung-gu road to sell your soul ...
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I have a mother who once said car, lake, who said, I couldn’t stand holding your sticky hands any longer, ...
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The fiery fist above slowly loses its hold / and the musky lungs of autumn grow dry. At last, fall ...
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He knew how it would be—should have.Forgetting the keys on the table, / doors locked, window’s open, returning / on ...
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Today has dawned a nude beginning. The male truck idles at the curfew and the bruisepaper waits on the porch ...
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Shouldn’t it let me buy everything and pay with negative interest? All those swirling golden stars teeming, unbalanced in the ...
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IN SOME ALIEN PRAIRIE the birds don’t circle the ways they do here     collected in one large cloud      a ...
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TWO POEMS by Jeremy Radin Ode to the Nectarine O secretive sunrise of an armadillo, won’t you please uncurl for ...
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He wakes back bent into a kind of platform for what is meant to be goodness ...
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Chits came in stapled packets, five yellow slips to a page, that ripped like postage stamps, perforated. Three’d buy a ...
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she scans a glossy creak lowland like wood floors creased with alluvial fans playas and alkali flats before sandy gravely ...
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LAST SUMMER AT SUMMERLAND by Dana Fang I When she trimmed the holly, when she trellised each lilac, her knuckles ...
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In one town, an apricot held in the mouth of a rabbit like a swollen tongue. In another, a pear ...
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DEAR CITY by Poul Lynggaard Damgaard I want to tell about the gap between houses and the way the windows ...
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When you don’t know what to expect you’re almost always expecting something, even if you’re mistaken, as when you expect ...
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I could be more perceptive. Beneath me, 750 ft., my wife is thinking. I fool no one. My sweater is ...
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The white car that lives in the white of the eye comes out of the sun behind the line of ...
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An animal, let’s say my dog, has issues with the end of the world. She’s lined the back porch in ...
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As of lately you said you have been strangely strange—a bit besides yourself, which you noticed when you take walk ...
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Green stripes only. No round, less square, don’t forget orange grapes. Stem-plant that table, soldier! Christ, where’s a pinstripe umbrella ...
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I caught you staring at that great Midwestern sunset sewn together with photons from the last six months in the ...
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Hunger was secret—hump on the back, the something else, the body insisting that it was present. Child head and child ...
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THE ANT LIEUTENANT TELLS ME OF HIS RETURN by David Callan Black soil collapsing onto rock. Beetles with shining blue ...
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No kissing, though we both know that we want to. You show up at my house wearing the exact same ...
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Forty millennia, and more, originating worlds, occasioning wines, wedges, plunder, and ( let’s guess, ) recovered and glassed, eyes around ...
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Wild blackberry bramble all along the edge. Himalaya? Or Cutleaf? Or Pacific? Thimbleberry? Let me try again, what net? We ...
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I've decided it's pigeons, not squirrels or worse, responsible for the ruckus— pigeons and some kind of metal fencing, chain ...
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Numbing    forgiveness-salve slathered on eyes     damned eyes, to sit across from this              man praised for handling his bossy woman   ...
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Leaning like a chiaroscuro, a man outside a bodega says, You only get one mother. I want my skin to ...
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I. Every night, we listen to his favorite songs. The kind of music you want to hear when your country ...
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Dip and paddle, bloom. A dragonfly barrels and darts. Hot afternoon balm rolls across the pond. The pending night wicks ...
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Morning with Cane Corsos Two black dogs are playing on a hill / in front of my grandmother’s church. Majestic ...
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We saw two barefoot boys walking down the double yellow lines, both holding their crotches in a two-hand grip, playing ...
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Fist above foothold, stay invisible; don't open your mouth and waste words on statues that may or may not love ...
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THE DAMAGE IS THE TRUTH by Roy White Ice on the stairs, brief flight, pain and an impossible angle. A ...
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How the body performs a blockade: I’m not here. Everyone wants to prove they can fight a tank. The Japanese ...
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The stage curtain of my dreams needs an alteration. Ka-Pow! Ambient billiard balls. “It’s always broccoli with you.” And it ...
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* You no longer bathe though a cold rain flows through one arm ...
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want to be that featureless dove tucked in the saint's armpit. I want to nest where his hand presses me ...
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Temporal weariness bought many women their milk,on condition that they would promise onlya small thing, some silent iniquity. They shuttheir ...
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Born with multiple spinal malformations. Missing ribs on the left side—only flesh to guard the collapsed lung. One right lung ...
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Otto, Otto everywhere. That was how I felt for a while, biting into wax fruit, crafting crusades in miniature, many ...
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Instead of violence Instead of the trees Instead of the brier Instead of regulation Instead of music Instead of jail ...
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the future is not Las Vegas yet here we are dying and newly alive glittering thunder dome of sweat ...
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Tall A woman grows taller and taller till she looms above her friends, brushes her head on door frames, grows ...
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My sight breaks up; orange rivulets drop down my eye; against my chest, a pain thwacks and clocks. I am ...
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For a time I felt harmonious and whole, if you know what I mean. Ringing bells alone could make a ...
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you can’t hold your man                  you can’t hit a jet going six hundred miles per hour with a .50 calibre ...
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The apocalypse goes to Stonehenge during the summer solstice and sings Joni Mitchell’s Blue while tripping on shrooms The apocalypse ...
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perched on spindles of the branching spring the wren with conspicuous brow, the buff sparrow with its white appetite, ravishing ...
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This was his third story, the one after the one about dinosaurs turning to glue and the ship trapped in ...
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS by Heather Holmes one month I am in philadelphia reading the Andrew Durbin book that describes this ...
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THE TOWER IN OUR CITY is always visible, no matter where we are, it doesn’t even matter what we’re looking ...
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No one bothered to tip me back into my own image. Now, I’ve got one eye seeing forever thru an ...
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I realize I do not wish to fall to the bottom of a well. With no one to hear my ...
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The ridiculous dissatisfaction with good fortune begins in shade, when every bit of luck pops up like a harlequin jammed ...
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Light Years: plurisy, renewed nostalgia for each moment as it goes, the dream returning as it’s escaping. / His wife’s ...
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