THEIVING CEREMONY by Jake Skeets
He comes for me. Body swollen with booze, fires for eyes. Each time, I let him have me and let him cry. It’s always his hands that touch...
A FUTURE YOU by Monica Lewis
An epiphany of the gut differs from those of the head or the heart; an epiphany of the gut gurgles up from every vein, tissue, organ,...
YEAR OF THE MONKEY by Paul Tran
1 FALL The more I ask the more is asked of me. My mother asks for nothing except a simple life —work work work— Never why,...
MY EIGHT-YEAR-OLD COUSIN ASKS IF I'M STILL A LEZBEAN THE MORNING AFTER GRAMMY'S FUNERAL by N
I. I wonder if my locs look like roots, my skin - cocoa, pinto, or coffee. I am painting blue the nails she begged me to file short. Of...
PORTRAITS OF A DIASPORA by Nadim Choufi
It doesn’t matter where you land an oil spill for a road. All the wrong colors to lend a breath on land you never felt your own. Remember...
DREAM OF ANGEL ISLAND (OR: HOW TO FALL IN LOVE W/ A WHITE GIRL) by Kristin Chang
1. pass her your breasts like river rocks, but don’t let her return them 2. your body stores its own collapse. Remember this. Remember...
TWO POEMS by Taylor Johnson
ROUNDTHEWAY Overcast in the shadow of the capitol, the city is a lead song sent up all night through populated air, capone smoke. A...
THREE POEMS by Joseph O. Legaspi
NIGHT When in love I melt into yellow, blend in with every light to become the most luminous apparition. You've come disguised, hair...
TWO POEMS by Justin Phillip Reed
HEAD OF MEDUSA as the reedy sonata of squelch and blade-spun air cinched its coda like a drawstring sack around us I did not dodge...
TO REMOVE STATIC by Joseph Jordan-Johnson
i. Take off all your clothes. Let every pore whistle for a moment think of warmth. Think of that dull thud of your heart underwater, like...