stephanie roberts – Nothing of the Month Club
Nothing of the Month Club Wearing a light-weight twill jacket, a woman walks out the door with her life. She deposits the key in a snow-coated storm drain and keeps it moving. Better the exchange of the hundred thousand the bank requires for nothing. She goes. And thinks ghosting is alchemic poetry the invisible comes […]
Adele Kenny – In Which the Sky
In Which the Sky Blue jays screech above her house—a box on the stairs tips open (empty), but she never says lonely. She loved a man once for the look of him and his hands (the way his knuckles whitened when he flicked cards against the fence), and his fingertips (stars that burned out long […]
Emmanuelle Christie – Adulterous Women
Adulterous Women we stopped being before we became, our love suspended against the city walls. one strong rain will dissolve us. we have had our softness sucked hard by monstrosity in our own likeness. we wear our horror like animal skin. in another age, we would feast on locust and honeycomb, her fingers sweetmeats between […]
Mara Lee Grayson – Call It Coping, Call It What You Will
Call It Coping, Call It What You Will In May I stuffed an hourglass with cotton gauze. June was unremarkable but for its aching. By July, I’d grown scars like cigarette paper, and August made me think of baptism, a ritual I’ve never known. It surprised me to see accordions still smoking on my forearm. […]
Zachariah Claypole White – A Catalogue of Moments as Told to My Bedroom Window
A Catalogue of Moments as Told to My Bedroom Window I. Today, my father is a hummingbird against the screen, and we are candles crossing the distance. He is twenty-one: a prophecy of laughter counting pigeon feathers, and I—the sand, waiting his touch. Today, the surgery. Fingers swell ripe as harvest moons. His wedding ring […]
