March Contributors
Izzy Nameth Beck, Allyn Bernkopf, David Calogero Centorbi, Cat Dixon, Deron Eckert, R.M. Engelhardt, Marc Frazier, Devon Fulford, Bex Hainsworth, Adele Hally, Jeff Hardin, Katie Johntz, David Lee, Naomi Bess Leimsider, Joshua Lillie, KG Miles, Tempest Miller, James Morehead, Yvonne Morris, Blair Nelsen, Hailey Paetzel, Cara Paleschi, · R L · powell, Prahi Rajput, Mikki Rios, Brad Rose, Mykyta Ryzhykh, Maisie Kennedy Sherriff, Kalina Smith, Annie Williams, Brandon Yu
Poetry
March Highlights
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anything that casts a shadow
by Joshua Lillie
“I’m what happens when you surprise an armadillo / with a weekend trip to Pensacola. / I’m the face in the crowd that you can’t quite place. / Am I your uncle? I’m too young to be your uncle.”
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the legend of thumbelina as generational trauma: glosa on sylvia plath’s “lady lazarus”
by Kalina Smith
“The apples didn’t fall far / from the gnarled family tree, / covered in cockchafers / who kill the lilies and violet, / burning every shred of beauty down / in just a moment’s flash.”
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remedy
by Bex Hainsworth
“It's been fifteen years since I allowed / her fussing, but now we both indulge. / I can’t say which balm soothes the burn. / When she slips teabags into my suitcase, / I smile, hold close her charms.”
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museum for the somnambulists
by James Morehead
“We’re together in the galleries / holding hands and pointing / Your father joyous after Canadian Thanksgiving / my father’s father unreadable over a poker hand…”
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ass
by Tempest Miller
“A donkey bites my hair / a bear hides in a tree / a bear hides in a tree / but the donkey kicks back legs into a woodburner / and lets go…”
end of summer
by Nicholas Castine
“In scorched grass, Girl turns — searching, knee-deep; / not a dandelion to blow.”
five poems
by Mykyta Ryzhykh
“bird with two wings / cannot dig a pit / for its chick”
five poems
by David Guiden
“This dick is fluent in every language”
five poems
by Rebecca Warlick
“Whoa I’m doing it / I’m escaping complex trauma/ I’m planting a rose garden / I’m hitting mom with a shovel“
bloody mind of primitivism
by Tempest Miller
“I refuse to die, at home alone with drunk sleepy father. / I will take every treatment. / I will fill my lungs with air…”
three poems
by Abbie Hart
“i’m going to crawl into the bag of rambutan on the second shelf of / my parents’ fridge ($5.99/lb at heb) and try not to think about / the things i left behind for a dream that died five years ago.”
two poems
by Lucas Mancini
“wilting between treehouses and greenhouses / weeping like a real orchid hothouse / wearing stilts to a planetarium / flossing with starlight before bad first dates…”
three poems
by Seth Rice
“…your toweled heat / to hold / in the hallway / between laundry loads / and your vinegar running soles.”
five poems
by Emma Atkins
“New Year’s Eve, I watch / a moth pull itself into the world: / black head dragging white body up the wall.”
two poems
by James B. Nicola
“the days before breaking up when you know you are only days away from breaking up…”
fantastic garlands —provincetown, ma
by Damon Hubbs
“A few days in the Province Lands & I am only one / only one girl crowned / & anchored for her heart’s desire.”
two poems
by henry 7. reneau, jr.
“rage that plummets our bodies moan/hearted / to the intrusion of it all . the nihilistic poltergeist…”
three poems
by Justin Karcher
“I heard a frantic meow from around the corner. / When I went to look, there was this kitten / with a Cheetos bag on its head running in a circle.”
double feature
by Thomas M. McDade
“Once a Locomotive / Assembly Plant / It houses twenty / Cinemas now…”
three poems
by David Hanlon
“I remember this heart, aflame— / a pond of restless red koi, / underwater fire-fish.”
grave dancing
by R.M. Engelhardt
“Listen… / Time howling / Withering…”
trigger warning: this poem may contain love, america, the ghosts of feeling sorry, radiohead lyrics, justice and injustice (in order), the prefrontal cortex, random assorted fish, and a pregnant baby
by Ron Riekki
“My uncle fell and broke his hip / and he was lying on the ground / and his computer was playing / The Rolling Stones / “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
three poems
by William Taylor, Jr.
“…listen to them tonight / over more beer, / believing in beauty once again / for as long as the music lasts.”
five poems
by Frederick Pollack
“Our impulse is to build the museum / before we’re sure what it commemorates / or mourns.”
five poems
by Lydia Rae Bush
“I still don't know what the dead feel like. / All I've learned since then is what it's like to actually / notice when you're feeling someone slowly die.”