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…”
the type
by John Jeffire
“His girlfriend at the time dug the type. College degree in something or other, sweaters he didn’t actually wear but tied around his neck—probably couldn’t throw a spiral or explain man coverage.”
when i check the time
by Grady VanWright
“In the mirror, a stranger with a hollow face / mumbles about markets--copper, salt, / the weight of words-- / but he falters at the syllables.”
five poems
by Blair Hamelink
“I hear a tickling from the bastardized voice / & the windmill of my rot / blows upon my hair / it seems, I’ve gone public / priest of the milkyway, Vincent: / I’m your man…”
true cross
by Michael Borth
“It is obvious in the aura of the green light of Honduras / Intersected by the wounds of the martyr, by the mother / Praying silver on the historical hill of the true cross…”
two poems
by Nate Tulay
“Somewhere in Liberia, / where the rain is falling heavy again… / as the effects of the edibles / start to kick in.”
five poems
by KG Miles
“‘To all the Judys, love Mr Punch’.”
luna’s goat
by Özge Lena
“She wore herself as an ordinary error proudly.“
joshua lampshade
by Travis Shosa
“Joshua Lampshade has swallowed / a disco ball, it’s a peach pit vessel / of retro kitsch.”
pot girl summer
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.”
barometer
by Eva Alter
“…the distance between myself and the world / was so narrow it was invisible—…”
the carousel
by Mark Belair
“Do not use horse hooves / as step or footrest…”
resensitization
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…”
i worry i’m becoming an alcoholic
by Sophia Carroll
“The problem is antipsychotics / don’t get me as high as Icarus…”
galcanezumab-gnlm 120mg injection; topiramate 100mg tablet; rizatriptan 10mg orally disintegrating tablet; acetaminophen 250mg/aspirin 250mg/caffeine 65mg tablet
by Anne B. Maydew
“auras / shift/ beneath / the / currents / of / the / world”
cathedral group
by L. Ward Abel
“Funny the way you picture a place / never squares with the real one…”
excerpt from untitled poem about a red box
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.”
two poems
by Brandon Diehl
“I dug through the boxes, half-watching / Jason X on the TV, trying to be festive.”
three poems
by Chloe Wheeler
“i’m messaging someone / seeking connection / tapped into Link NYC / for free Wifi…”
two poems
by Natalie Marino
“The night is a blackbird / searching for one dolphin / in a bedfull of oysters.”
thrash fiction
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…”