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…”
a train through the south
by Grady VanWright
“The train grinds into its final station— / a street, present and pulsing, / where a man sells honey / in jars that mirror his eyes.”
five poems
by David Koehn
“Red ink draws a teardrop around a green-eyed tea with no pupil. / What kind of madness might I ask for from the startling whiteness of Labrador tea?”
two poems
by Daniel Edward Moore
“Here, lips obediently swallow / the laws of drunken gods and / salvation is delusional, making / the real, unreal.”
three poems
by GTimothy Gordon
“After the long haul you wait / for the slow still-life to matter.”
job creator heaven
by GRSTALT Comms
“the individual is free to decompose however they see fit the word has been compromised to a permanent end beaten to a pulp by the new literary outlaws…”
waterline
by Eva Alter
“…eyes peeled for errors in transmission I matched my breath to water’s pulse…”
amor y las chuparosas (love and hummingbird charms)
by Jordan Trethewey
“‘Divine hummingbird enrich my life and love, so that my lover will want only me.’ -anonymous prayer.”
the wasteling
by Michael Borth
“In the coffee aromatics of teacher / And office. Of classroom and marijuana car. Stilted in / The energetic wasteling chant was torn from the magnet / To strum infinite mirror tunnels.”
four poems
by Brad Rose
“Of course, it’s all Greek to me, but thanks to the gravity of the situation, what goes up, must come down. We must imagine Sisyphus, light-headed, giggling.“
five poems
by Emily K. Sipiora
“I am rotating in the hot / deli case at the gas station / Searing all good / overcooked”
three poems
by Howie Good
“My face twists into the anguished expression Christ wears on wall crucifixes – but, of course, without my being worshipped and adored.”
a swimmer within sight of his moon
by L. Ward Abel
“I’m a tree frog latching there / onto a glass sky…”
five poems
by Carla Sarett
“she steals a drugstore red lipstick / called Fire and Ice or Cherries in the Snow / runs down Broadway in red stilettos / dips into a sexy red Corvette…”
three poems
by Jason Davidson
“for every one balloon I’ve loved, a thousand more have popped like winter bones.”
a raker of dust, a rattler of bones
by R.M. Engelhardt
“The prophets / Have left the building.”
two poems
by Joe Amato
“where ascent began / in this once rumored brothel, / my sophomore residence, / now budget hotel. / I held a fourth floor key, / but walked two flights…”
four poems
by Steven Bruce
“Because it was cheaper than therapy. / Because sleep never came alone. / Because she left him for a better man. / Because the bottle felt lighter than guilt.”
five poems
by Mark Young
“It doesn’t suddenly / fall into place… / Rather, small pieces, frag- / ments of a template, shaken / loose by the coughing fits / that wake you every / hour… / …Sort of like / the leftovers from / a bad acid trip…”
five poems
by Rose Knapp
“All sense of self dissolves / Time moves very slowly / Bad trips can make / Paranoia intense…”
of wars and divorce
by Dario Cvencek
“a clusterfuck of decency / a shitshow of humanity / a bankruptcy of morality…”