by Travis Shosa

“Joshua Lampshade has swallowed / a disco ball, it’s a peach pit vessel / of retro kitsch.”

by Courtney Leigh

“It’s delulu to want everyone to like you / they’re always so ungiving—I want to not give / but to value the remaining fucks I’ve got.”

by Eva Alter

“…the distance between myself and the world / was so narrow it was invisible—…”                        

by Mark Belair

“Do not use horse hooves / as step or footrest…”

by Jesse Hilson

“I’d been alive a week when they sheared off / My penis, or a part. The doc had drunk / A martini, or two, and off skin came…”

by Sophia Carroll

“The problem is antipsychotics / don’t get me as high as Icarus…”

by Anne B. Maydew

“auras / shift/ beneath / the / currents / of / the / world”

by L. Ward Abel

“Funny the way you picture a place / never squares with the real one…”

by Sarah Rosenthal

“On the surface of the box are embroidered objects that resemble butterflies or flowers; a poem threads its way in between these decorations.”

by Brandon Diehl

“I dug through the boxes, half-watching / Jason X on the TV, trying to be festive.”

by Chloe Wheeler

“i’m messaging someone / seeking connection / tapped into Link NYC / for free Wifi…”

by Jan Hassmann

“…it's taped up with a black X and the low E slithers and sways like a sidewinder in the slow narcotic strobe and the room crackles as you hit the fuzz and drench the surging pit…”

by Howie Good

“Ghost. Hangman. The names of games we used to play as kids while waiting for the rain to stop or the school bus to come or our normal daily suffering to be avenged.”

by Sreelekha Chatterjee

“Watery in action, watery in emotions— / brain, heart, lungs, skin, muscles, / kidneys, bones—images seated within, / mirroring their masts.”

by Jacob Schepers

“Queen / Latifah bites it / from the jellyfish  / attack that starts out / so cute and like little nibbles.”

by Dario Cvencek

“…we all knew that / we were capable of / building something / that even grenades / could not / tear down.”

by Hannah Maloney and Jessie Lifton

“- -> upon the water where two rivers meet -> / -> hums in nameless the mercy seat  -> driftwood set upon the humming -> / -> the broken meter drumming ->”

by Carleen Tibbetts

“the trope of flawed privilege/an accident of glass/out of language…”

by Sara Atwater

“Neither of us find sense in this moment / seeing our future reflected in the pond’s darkening light.”