December Contributors
Cynthia Atkins, Lydia Rae Bush, Mitch Christensen, Jesse Darnay, Angel T. Dionne, R.M. Engelhardt, Jones Erwin, James Henlon, John Jeffire, Ingrid Marie Jensen, Patrick Johnston, Justin Karcher, Craig Kirchner, Thomas McDade, Catfish McDaris, Frederick Pollack, Nick Power, henry 7. reneau, jr., Ron Riekki, Mykyta Ryzhykh, William Taylor, Jr., Rodrigo Toscano, James Fleet Underwood, Grady VanWright, Philip Venzke, Emma Wells, Von Wise
Poetry
December Highlights
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dreaming of horses
by by Ingrid Marie Jensen
“…bright horses, bolting in from the blue / and I know that’s borderline / affirmations written on the mirror in lipstick…”
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through the cubes
by Grady VanWise
“You blink and now she's dressed in shadow, / a shroud of midnight, / with flickers of neon red pulsing underneath, / veins of pure electricity…”
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love poem
by Von Wise
“Off in the distance, the village pervert / watches us making love / in the afternoon heat. We regard him / as harmless, the way we'd regard a dog / or bird and continue with our wet return / into one another.”
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her taco tasted like rain
by Catfish McDaris
“Her freckles were devil’s kisses / showering down from purgatory.”
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homopteran pandernos/ : a sociopathy sequestered in place
by henry 7. reneau, jr.
“rage that plummets our bodies moan/hearted / to the intrusion of it all . the nihilistic poltergeist…”
six visual poems
by Laszlo Aranyi (Frater Azmon)
“As a veil floats the written text”
three poems
by Isla Mayer
“…it was the work of minimal imagination to picture them overturning furniture pulling cupboards away from the walls…”
five poems
by Rhea Melina
“This spider trap was not my plan. I did not design this steep, slick bathtub nor fail to seal the doors properly.”
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!”