Issue 8
orlan or what/sideshow lizards & lions
by dylan krieger orlan or what little lamb electrified by elective procedures jigsaw muzzle mosaic nymph myth venus europa
Read more.Prayer for What I Do Not Want
by Amorak huey I do not want to write a poem about a tyrant. A tyrant is not a poem.
Read more.The Life Cycle of a Peach Tree
by christopher m. drew 1. Dormancy The doctor thinks that I’m shrinking. I step off the scales and perch on
Read more.FIRST GIRL/FINAL GIRL
BY PAOLA FERRANTE On Friday the 13th I could have been Sandra Dier, lips gashed up like Marilyn’s in six shades
Read more.THE SKIN I’M IN
BY RENOIR GAITHER The moon moves in the lining of your skin ~Pablo Neruda The skin I’m in warmed Ticonderoga
Read more.TASMANIAN TIGER / RENOVATION
BY SARA RYAN TASMANIAN TIGER when the odds are 1 in 1.6 trillion, prove them wrong. flash your stripes in
Read more.DISCHORD NO. 15 / DISCHORD NO. 60 / REVELATION 073
BY BETH GILSTRAP AND JIM WARNER Dischord No. 15 You ride four hours to Appalachia in the back of a
Read more.Abstracted
by Alison Leigh Lilly It’s embarrassing how much I love each one of them. For instance, take the girl in college
Read more.Kitty Genovese Names Her Fourteen Wounds
by Jennifer Martelli The first shouldered the new moon sky. The second was a single blue oculus on the tail of
Read more.FAT BOY / “WHY WOULD YOU WANT A DRIED HAND?”
BY TODD DILLARD FAT BOY The body is a treasure map which is why my nails carve exes across
Read more.WE ALL HAVE TO COME HOME SOMEDAY / OF COURSE IT’S ABOUT RACE
BY DANTE DOUGLAS WE ALL HAVE TO COME HOME SOMEDAY I learned I was black the same way that I
Read more.The Marks of Aegis
by julian k. jarboe The first nice thing I ever did to my body was tear it open. Before then,
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