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

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.”
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.”
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.”
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…”
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…”

David Estringel 8/27/25 David Estringel 8/27/25

winterbeach

by L. Ward Abel

“The astronauts spoke of / a change once they’d seen / themselves from out of range…”

David Estringel 8/26/25 David Estringel 8/26/25

something needs hiding

by Thomas McDade

“There are ten ships left in the Ghost Fleet but not visible from the shore.”

David Estringel 8/25/25 David Estringel 8/25/25

two poems

by Danielle McMahon

“Within moon-white houses, / The people sat like the dead, ill-lit by television light, still, undrawn against the night, / touching expressionless faces )but never really touching them…”

David Estringel 8/24/25 David Estringel 8/24/25

final thoughts of january on an april journey

by Jake Sheff

“The pace of May should be glacial, happiness / Should swell with priestly persistence only then… / Let total depravity’s two ha’pennies / Be tzedakah till the days no longer lengthen.”

David Estringel 8/23/25 David Estringel 8/23/25

excerpts from the metoposcopy of guðr and khôra miraibot,volume VIII, section I, the posthuman series

by Daniel Y. Harris

“Cōnsūmpsī this yahwic digestif / with an infinitivity in inchoate aggregates / that strive for ma’arekhet ha-elohut / with a reified center’s / Virus.X97M.XANPEI.NL.”

David Estringel 8/22/25 David Estringel 8/22/25

excerpts from orbiculus, volume XI, the grammaton series

by Irene Koronas

“this daughter of fingal penseroso / with her gathicomus in a fierie / alphbook (1084-85) / has her byronic purse / shrovetide the shew / with athanatisness…”

David Estringel 8/21/25 David Estringel 8/21/25

two poems

Excerpt from the upcoming poetry collection Sloughing the Shroud from Anxiety Press by Julian Thumm

“…belladonna, oleander, & foxglove— / impart their death’s-head narcotic / under the sensual intellect / & play of decomposition.”

David Estringel 8/20/25 David Estringel 8/20/25

four poems

by Mike Ferguson

“i hear the ALL-ABOARD…i hear thescreech&THESCREECH…i hear the percussive chug&chug&chug&chug…i hear the hornwoo-ooh-woos…... i think it just passed by.”

David Estringel 8/20/25 David Estringel 8/20/25

the jade burial suit

by Michael Borth

“To resurrect into the jade burial suit / In breechclout and worrystone / I become the mudra of Shiva / Or the keeper of the numbers / Written on paper in for-sale cars…”

David Estringel 8/19/25 David Estringel 8/19/25

fire works?

by Dario Cvencek

“explosions are / as real as / apple pie.”

David Estringel 8/18/25 David Estringel 8/18/25

five poems

by Scott C. Holstad

“01000111 01000101 01001110 01000101 01010100 01001001 01000011 00100000 01000011 01001111 01000100 01000101…”

David Estringel 8/17/25 David Estringel 8/17/25

five poems

by Elana Wolff

“The sun shone angrily that day, / white-hot the next / and next. / Then xanthous as a bruise / when it turns from purple.”

David Estringel 8/16/25 David Estringel 8/16/25

sonya soundbiter

by Zev Levinson

“she sinks to her knees without / word / all this music become unsung and Sonya by Babylon so stung”

David Estringel 8/15/25 David Estringel 8/15/25

solar power recalibrates my philosophies

by Kati Flores

“Sun salutations against the pavement./ Worshipping noon’s glorious sun. / High like a basking lizard./ Drunk on summertime fuel.”

David Estringel 8/15/25 David Estringel 8/15/25

i want a word with the manager

by Tom Cintula

“Memo to Alex Rossi: Don't leave your baked goods unattended! / Otherwise the Edible Fairy will take them away.”

David Estringel 8/14/25 David Estringel 8/14/25

five poems

by jms xuange

“The water shines./ She fills two Mason jars and carries them home / in the basket of her bicycle. Her mom lets her use / the refrigerator but the girl sleeps / on the porch for the rest of the summer.”