Poetry
Contributors
Lilith Acadia, Tomás Baiza, Joe Bisicchia, Louis Bourgeois, Ambrielle Butler, Alex Carrigan, Alan Catlin, Joe Coy, Andreas Felps, Rebecca Ferlotti, Reebie Flowers, Sarah Freia, Benjamin Goluboff, Jack D. Harvey, Paul Ilechko, James Croal Jackson, Patrick Johnston, Carella Keil, Michael Paul Kozlowsky, Mark LaMonda, Abbie Langmead, Karina Longo, Rachel Christina McConnell, Daniel Edward Moore, Cassady O’Reilly-Hahn, Kasey Perkins, Julie Puckett, henry 7. reneau, jr., Sandip Saha, Walter Skinner, and mike sluchinski
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Six Poems
by Rachel Christina McConnell
“Exposed, my body feels like a crime scene. / The faint mist of a finger-smudged lens, / the halo of a chalk outline: / dead girl in a rented room…”
Six Poems
by James Croal Jackson
“On the plane / surrounded / by strangers / on Christmas / my loneliness / lets on like / it was never / there.”
Six Poems
by Sandip Saha
“I sat on the back of a Dolphin / Set on a voyage deep into the sea / Went through all nook and corner / In a venture of unlimited time.”
Six Poems
by Rebecca Ferlotti
“dandelions like blue cheese / veins in valleys— / synchronized sneezes— / no rain to wash away pollen…”
Two Poems
by Abbie Langmead
“Villainy is more than surface deep and white lies…”
Loose Staples
by Michael Paul Kozlowsky
“This store / Like the books / Sold within / Were filled / With characters / Colorful / And chaotic / And trapped / Within tight / Borders / Without a / Sense of time / Or prophets”
Four Poems
by Kasey Perkins
“I turn and burn / I melt with a shriek / I am the meat.”
Five Poems
by Ambrielle Butler
“I had a dream where we were sharing / clementines on a picnic blanket, exchanging them softly like vows, sucking / the juice between chapped lips, the pruny husks littering the ground…”
The Twenty-Thousand Pound Woman (An Ekphrasis for Coyolxauqui)
by Tomás Baiza
“…here lay / Coyolxauhqui, / She Who Is Adorned With Bells, / Queen of the Milky Way…”
Two Poems
by Julie Puckett
“we guess at constellations / next to the bones of / the old dock. / Promise you’ll come back / one day”
Three Poems
by Benjamin Goluboff
“He is time’s bitch / in the color exposure / time’s bitch in / midstride. / He is exquisite cool / immaculate cool / and gone.”