Category: Issues

Shouldn’t Have by Samantha Kolesnik Aunt Marty’s new apartment is smaller than the one she had up in the city, the one that gathered dust and spiders in all the unused places. My aunt perches on her cheap wicker couch and surveys the small space.

The Death of Sargon the Gardener by Reilly Cox

Sargon Goes Westward by Reilley Cox It is unclear if the cactus were in bloom,

Sargon Names All the Tomatoes in Existence by Reilly Cox

The Day of His Death by Todd Copeland He desired the sky to be overcast when that day finally came, a light gray from horizon to horizon

“How bodily they made Diana” by Katherine Kim How bodily they made Diana on the altar I left my price bone, tooth, fin, stone

“Eddas in the Kitchen” by Marion Deal Sing the lays of old slip an edda or two beneath the tongue to dissolve (the body of seared hero)

King Tide Twilight by Elizabeth Kate Switaj you carried my bubu across the road it was only 30 yards but my grandma’s skin is sharp, her bones too soft to lift her birdweight from you

Mortal Weekend by Allison Hummel   The ground might rise beneath you, like bread. Things might descend to meet you, as if borne by the voice