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…”
three poems
by DAH
“But no one noticed that she was / coughing up / maybe blood, maybe death / maybe old lovers.”
five poems
by Eric Subpar
“When Your Car Flies Off the Road...you can't tell me...that doesn't feel like love.”
five poems
by Mark Wadley
“Best of all wrestlers / you float above your body / as it takes
its punishment / your mind a phantom limb…”
five poems
by Elizabeth Shanaz
“I told him no. Her man plopped his ugly ass in my DMs. I didn’t have / the bandwidth.”
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”