Yesterday’s Traumas, Today’s Salt my family dines luxurious—peasant food in crystal bowls:seven-thousand six-hundred forty-one islands jostling in my soup. here is Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao—grandmother points to moundsdunking up & down in the saltbroth. & rice, don’t forget the rice, which she steamed in the old palayok—earthen pot & lid, red unglazed clay lending its savage…
Category: Issue Seven
Annesha Mitha – Editor’s Note
As an avid home cook, food is how I love myself. Every time I eat, I choose to live, to continue into the next moment, to give my body what it needs for today and tomorrow. A home cooked meal is how I say to myself: I’m glad I exist. It’s how I say to…
Sasha Shrestha, “Two-Headed Calf”
Sasha Shrestha is an artist based in Boston. This cake is based off of the poem “The Two Headed Calf by Laura Gilpin.”
Robert Américo Esnard, “Terra Nullius”
Terra Nullius: When I learned he was to live with us,I found my mother’s pan. With reverence,I ran my fingers across the sooted basin:dry and cracking, oily and fragrant. It sweatto my touch, keen to make our mutual offering. I scored the skin of a pig and laid it, fat glistening,on the charred iron. The…
Douglas Piccinnini, “Three Recipes”
Warm, Marinated Olives This simple and satisfying snack comes together quickly and is perfect for entertaining. Gently frying the herbs and spices in Extra Virgin Olive Oil really wakes up the flavors in these meaty olives. I prefer to use Castelvetrano Olives with the pits still intact. Using olives with a pit means no surprises.…
Ryley O’Byrne, “Sometimes even I get sick of lemonade”
Ryley O’Byrne is an artist and writer from xwesam, the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples (Roberts Creek, Canada). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in arts publications including Canadian Art, Public Parking, Room Journal, and Art Viewer. In 2020, she won The Capilano Review New Physicalities Writing Prize.
Daniel Garcia, “Playing Dead”
Playing Dead “I do it so it feels like hell.” – Sylvia Plath, “Lady Lazarus” The Virginia opossum, species name didelphis virginiana, is the only marsupial indigenous to North America. Known colloquially as “trash kitties” on social media for their hissing, panic-stricken faces, and propensity for scouring dumpsters for scraps, the stereotypes aren’t that far…
Yaz Lancaster, “magnesium”
Yaz Lancaster is a Black transdisciplinary artist most interested in relational aesthetics, collage, and liberatory politics. Their work has appeared in Atlas and Alice, The Poetry Project’s HOUSEPARTY, the tiny, Underblong (where they received the 2021 Blongprize and a Pushcart Nomination), and elsewhere. They have degrees in violin and poetry from NYU, write for I…
K-Ming Chang, “Sweet”
We gathered at Ama’s new apartment, the one that Uncle No Balls and Aunt Small Eyes got everyone in the family to pitch in 50 dollars a month to cover. Mama complained and said, That bitch is asking us for 50 dollars a month when she just bought that cherry-dotted LV bag she cradles under…