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 David Hanlon
“I remember this heart, aflame— / a pond of restless red koi, / underwater fire-fish.”
grave dancing
by R.M. Engelhardt
“Listen… / Time howling / Withering…”
trigger warning: this poem may contain love, america, the ghosts of feeling sorry, radiohead lyrics, justice and injustice (in order), the prefrontal cortex, random assorted fish, and a pregnant baby
by Ron Riekki
“My uncle fell and broke his hip / and he was lying on the ground / and his computer was playing / The Rolling Stones / “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
three poems
by William Taylor, Jr.
“…listen to them tonight / over more beer, / believing in beauty once again / for as long as the music lasts.”
five poems
by Frederick Pollack
“Our impulse is to build the museum / before we’re sure what it commemorates / or mourns.”
five poems
by Lydia Rae Bush
“I still don't know what the dead feel like. / All I've learned since then is what it's like to actually / notice when you're feeling someone slowly die.”
five poems
by Catfish McDaris
“Her freckles were devil’s kisses / showering down from purgatory.”
five poems
by James Fleet Underwood
“…a destination seldom reached where even for the shortest second nothing’s / ever over, where nothing seems to die, where the last I’ll ever learn / and love of you is the glowing purple cactus flowers trembling all around.”
five poems
by Von Wise
“Off in the distance, the village pervert / watches us making love / in the afternoon heat. We regard him / as harmless, the way we'd regard a dog / or bird and continue with our wet return / into one another.”
you want it darker
by Patrick Johnston
“A knife can be a tool / A dagger is always a story”
vaccumed off the carpet i’m in the vaccum now
by Rebecca Warlick
“You carried me to the sink / I woke up to luminous columns / And turned into dust“
two poems
by Cynthia Atkins
“Now I drive / with death on the passenger side./ A revenant finishing all my sentences.”
five poems
by Mykyta Ryzhykh
“This verse will be picked up by crows in the morning / And they will be thrown from heaven / On icy concrete heart rocks / All in vain”
breakfast machine
by Angel T. Dionne
“my blood supply is half-moon citrus / filtered through a gnat…”
after ma bell there was the hunchback
by Philip Venzke
“Quasimodo dials the number again and hears the steady buzz of a busy signal.”
postpartum
by Jesse Darnay
“Our newborn sounds / a fracture, / chipping my summer.”
grifted
by John Jeffire
“She regifted all, a painless sloughing of skin.”
through the cubes
by Grady VanWise
“You blink and now she's dressed in shadow, / a shroud of midnight, / with flickers of neon red pulsing underneath, / veins of pure electricity…”
five poems
by Craig Kirchner
“Insomnia and I decide to get up / and check out some late-night TV. / It’s a mutual decision, but he gets credit for the idea. / I’m going to have a coffee, hazelnut, /and he’s down with the 12-year-old bourbon, neat.”
two poems
by Ingrid Marie Jensen
“…bright horses, bolting in from the blue / and I know that’s borderline / affirmations written on the mirror in lipstick…”