June Contributors

Ron Arbuckle, Olivia Bell, Katherine Breeden, Lachlan Brooks, Mackenzie Carignan, Kathi Crawford, Nick Crowley, Francis de Lima, Ryan di Francesco, Peter Donnelley, Bart Edelman, Mike Ferguson, Devon Fulford, Howie Good, Shannon Guglielmo, Samantha Hund, Kiran Josen, dee p.r. kay, Josh Lipson, Kes Maro, Garth Martens, Colin McGuire, Mike McHone, Natalie Nee, Clara No!, Mark Parsons, Emily Pavick, Abish Qamar, and John Repp

Poetry

May Highlights

swan story: ode to ambiguous pronouns

by John Repp
“…the delis & bookshops, / the cobblers & lectures & resettlement houses jostling / each block, all the free things penniless couples could do, / how they hid their Robeson records till McCarthy / was good and dead.”
domestic sentences 11

by Bill Neumire
“[Jesse] just got a senior lecturer position at Cornell and he gets to teach a class on happiness, which is a secular replacement for god.
it was a war, wasn't it?

by Crystal James
“Today, I celebrate my inner child / Her strength and resilience / Her messy hair and shy voice / Her dirty feet and fearless climb / Her vigilance / Her hope / Her love for red poppies in August”
puppet man

by Frank Haberle
“Come, children, the man standing on a box / In the center of the bridge yelled to us, / In Shakespeare. Let us shut up this box / And put away these puppets, for our play / Has been played.”
narcissus, repenting

by Hanna Webster
“I lick her palm, which tastes like mercy, her grooved heartline ensnared by the pathetic molecular boundary of her flesh. What a shame. I smell fear radiate from her hair like steam”

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five poems

by Spencer Silverthorne

“I lost the lush fading to his geyser. I google / all the fish I refuse to commit to memory.”

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five poems

by Ihor Pidhainy

“their drivers did not worry / where’d they’d end – in a lake / or a deep ravine, or a combo / of the two. That is they were drugged, / left for dead…”

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end of summer

by Nicholas Castine

“In scorched grass, Girl turns — searching, knee-deep; / not a dandelion to blow.”

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five poems

by Mykyta Ryzhykh

“bird with two wings / cannot dig a pit / for its chick”

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five poems

by David Guiden

“This dick is fluent in every language”

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five poems

by Rebecca Warlick

“Whoa I’m doing it / I’m escaping complex trauma/ I’m planting a rose garden / I’m hitting mom with a shovel“

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bloody mind of primitivism

by Tempest Miller

“I refuse to die, at home alone with drunk sleepy father. / I will take every treatment. / I will fill my lungs with air…”

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three poems

by Abbie Hart

“i’m going to crawl into the bag of rambutan on the second shelf of / my parents’ fridge ($5.99/lb at heb) and try not to think about / the things i left behind for a dream that died five years ago.”

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five poems

by Paul Hostovsky

“I was devastated / and heartbroken as only the Tin Man / who didn’t even know he had a heart / until it got broke could be”

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two poems

by Lucas Mancini

“wilting between treehouses and greenhouses / weeping like a real orchid hothouse / wearing stilts to a planetarium / flossing with starlight before bad first dates…”