TWO POEMS by Lily Zhou
PALINODE IN A LOST CITY When I touched her / here she said I made her / imagine what I could do / with a pail / of salted fish / I paled...
THE FILM by Amrita Chakraborty
to a silken reverberation i entrust my rope. to its coursing unwieldy body, ephemerous almost kind i listened for the...
OF THIRTY-SIX OPTIONS DEPARTURE IS BEST by Joey De Jesus
Click here to read Joey's poem. Credit: Dan Gutt and RAGGA NYC JOEY DE JESUS is the author of NOCT: The Threshold of Madness (The...
TWO POEMS by Nghiem Tran
ABYSS The winter stars, months later, Would ask why I went there. Why I went Knowing what the cellar held. Abyss. Stillness. The dark...
EXODUS II by Jari Bradley
There is home nowhere— not even as I stand center of the Eureka valley prideless, the heft of myself crushed from all sides in a sea...
IN ANOTHER LIFE by KB
I imagine us at the mountain-temple being worshipped by snow & dew. We wander like wanderers do looking for moments when our shadows...
END SCENE by Ashley Davis
Saturday wissahickon creek water holds the heat of 3 black femmes wading against a downstream current femme one, long legged stretched a...
TODAY I TOOK MY BODY OFF LAYAWAY by Tianna Bratcher
paid all the fees and brought it home bought every piece back from anyone who thought they owned any of it pried every limb from everyone...
THE TIME SHE SAW HORSES FLY by Lillian Sickler
I moved to Monterey in search of a fast assault of images like in the fun spaghetti westerns that my parents watched as children of the...
RECONCILIATION WITH BIRTH FATHER by Erin Jin Mei O'Malley
Forgive me father for I have not cupped your face like the body of water I once drank from, nor have I ever desired to exile myself in...