August Contributors
Daniel Luévano and Saba Zahoor
Poetry
three poems
by Damon Hubbs
“Before M_____ taped a banana to the wall we painted with cocaine cool heat, supra-sensorial, rivulets of violets.”
five poems
by Will Cordeiro
“A barren landscape, a blinding expanse. As if I had fallen into the subterranean reaches of a dry cave that opened out into shadowy folds of badlands.”
two poems
by Chris McCreary
“they blame the game, not the tablet making the brain pan nap its mangle.”
three poems
by MK Kuol
“everything ceases to be. everything… i become the ash of my poems―only survived by subdued commas―charred in time’s kiln.”
three poems
by Scott C. Holstad
“she thinks of flowers. she spreads her legs and touches herself. her fingers are drills.”
three poems
by Tom Zimmerman
“the roof of Hell my parents walked & bore of course dark shadows of their own but i believe i was the über shadow of the house the demon dynamo…”
three poems
by Sean G. Meggeson
“ground mice needle scurrying liquid drop model making time creating big men paining…”
Two poems
by Gerard Sarnat
“…fly again into regular quotidian lives.”
ephemera
by Eva Alter
“…I sit in the sand and listen to the tides gasp Their satellite song.
five poems
by Thomas Jackson
“call an ugly over rugburn from pulled collar red rough textile stingturn on, bent knee stint fingers in mouth”
Two Poems
by Jonathan Fletcher
“Jesus boxing Satan tall, six-packed, chiseled a facial twin of Jared Leto…”
four poems
by Liam Strong
“[if we didn’t run / from our prey][if we wore scars like scars & not berries / for the plucking]…”
five poems
by K. Fern Lauth
“A brief sliver of life and light Exists between the white silences”
two poems
by Bob McAfee
“Fine day for a ride. Back in the saddle again. Wearing chaps and chap stick on Rodeo Day at the hotel from Hell. Relatives will be called to ID the body.”
kaos karma
by Rus Komutoff
“VOICES IN MY HEAD THESE ALMOST INVISIBLE CLOUDS OF BREATH KILLING TIME LOST DAYS ANONYMOUS TRANSCENDANCE”
of questionable qualities
by Amanda Andrews
“I’m hypersomnia trying to be an oneiromancer, only I’m also a cranky insomniac unable to create soundless dreams”
two poems
by Laszlo Aranyi (Frater Azmon)
“She spreads her thighs unashamedly:
- Here, here it is...
- What?
- My cunt, you idiot!”
two poems
by Larry O. Dean
“Archie’s hardwares are tolerated by his newsagent and passive willingness, Edith (Jean Stapleton)…”
songs 32-34
by David Harrison Horton
“The armchair smells of cats and the deceased, a familiarity that brings no comfort.”
deeper heat
by Hiram Larew
“Be sure to ask the flu and its shivers If there’s anything more Or even better to expect After tonsils or broth“