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    GONE. HERE. by Kai Davis

    GONE. HERE. by Kai Davis

    Golden Shovel after Muddy Waters You empty my momma’s house and don’t visit. Once you came to us yellow faced and you did not say sorry. ...
    POKÉDEX ENTRY #91: CLOYSTER by Marlin M. Jenkins

    POKÉDEX ENTRY #91: CLOYSTER by Marlin M. Jenkins

    Even a missile can’t break the spikes it uses to stab opponents. They’re even harder than its shell. i dreamt a calcified sculpture f...
    LIKE A SONG by Deon Robinson

    LIKE A SONG by Deon Robinson

    I inhale the steam, my mother told me hymns linger in the nostrils. Even after the fact, even among the radioactive fallout of tears, Show...
    DADDY PORN by Teo Mungaray

    DADDY PORN by Teo Mungaray

    I want to know what makes me want to see one man call another his ‘boy’ and fuck him. Oh, Freud would love this disaster. I know I’m not ...
    RUPAUL DISCOVERS HIS BLACKNESS by Imani Davis

    RUPAUL DISCOVERS HIS BLACKNESS by Imani Davis

    well, shit. all those years i done dedicated to seeing my skin hexed up under this neon. each glossy decade gone to waste, pretty wigs on...
    ON EARTH, I IS, WILL BE, ME by Jasmine Reid

    ON EARTH, I IS, WILL BE, ME by Jasmine Reid

    At the river, I watches the green be itself even without the sun. I is the only bright yellow thing out here. I’s nails, anyway. Painte...
    青 by Minying Huang

    青 by Minying Huang

    青1 after《白蛇传》2 一 You have written me green. It is the dark gall green, caustic. Skin, green. Sca...
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