by Taylor Franson-Thiel | Sep 27, 2024 | Issue #7, Issues, Poetry
With Desperation My faith is a mauled tumbleweed not even buckshot could untangle. The gaps, where I curl like a question. Marking my veneration with clumsy tongue stumbles over verses I once had...
by Chloe McIntosh | Sep 27, 2024 | Issue #7, Issues, Poetry
In a poem we are tipping horchata down a drain, holding hands, laughing and in love the way we were in life transcending the romantic or the familial to confuse every friend and parent, the girl who hit on you in the vampire themed bar-cum-pizzeria and glanced at...
by Taylor Franson-Thiel | Sep 27, 2024 | Issue #7, Issues, Poetry
The only reason I know my body is real are the bruises. Raspberry covered, pools of blood, scales along linoleum scraped knees. I slam into open cupboard doors just to acquaint myself with the plywood edges of my limbs. In a past life, perhaps I was a lake...
by Bethany Jarmul | Sep 27, 2024 | Issue #7, Issues, Poetry
O, garden of plastic petals, of pink frogs-turned-blossoms, of grape-shaped leaves, of tentacle-vines& reflective purple pearls—brick-by-brick you buildmy smile when I pass with a heavy hamper of toddler-peed sheets & bloodied...
by Taylor Franson-Thiel | Sep 26, 2024 | Issue #7, Issues, Poetry
On the day we move in, clouds interrupt our view of what transitions into space. The whisped water a thin sheet between us. That is how close we are to...
by Abdulmueed Balogun Adewale | Mar 31, 2024 | Issue #6, Issues, Poetry
For Giyazah I pray you, merciful God, always give me the strength To listen to my inner self, when everythingAround me becomes rebellious, Israelites at the entry of the promised land,Stifling the breath of my green hope. I’ve lived through the untimely departure of...
