It was a kind of sex. For over a week the sunsets had been glaring neon from forest fires up north. It was late in the afternoon and the sky still hung ozone across the parking lot, the char suspended in the dry air scraping inside my nostrils. Every week I bring tote bags here to buy groceries.…
Category: Issue Six
The Robert Poems by S. Yarberry
William Blake’s youngest brother, Robert Blake (William’s “special favorite” as one book puts), died at the age of 25 in 1787 of tuberculosis—at least scholars are pretty sure. As Aileen Ward writes in her article Who Was Robert Blake?, “[M]ost puzzling of all, nowhere in the St. James Parish register is the birth or baptism…
Two Poems by Trace Peterson
PUSSY my butt my back my stomach my breasts my shoulders my arms leaning on the table my uncanny valley my deskjob aversion my porcupine quills my stoppages my filler my quicksand my elevated archness my foolproof schemes my childlessness my shipping costs my frozen Hopper characters huddled in a diner my ballistics estimates coming…
Difficulties (2), by Mike Dowley
Mike Dowley lives and works in his native Northern Virginia. He has shown his art locally and nationally, including at Arlington Arts Center (VA), Doris Mae (DC), Art at Kings Oaks (PA), Blue Spiral (NC), Atlantic Gallery (NYC) and the Phillips Collection, Washington DC. His work has been selected for exhibition by William Bailey, Yale University, and…
fit / fright, by TR Brady
eyelids tender from rubbing + reaction become irritated once more I drive out to Kalona at night to see the dark + scream + cry after getting off work at the big box store When back in Iowa City I sit in a BK parking lot to listen to university radio +…
Internet Girls, by JSA Lowe
JSA Lowe‘s poems have appeared most recently in DIAGRAM, GASHER, Hobart, Salt Hill Journal, Superstition Review, Third Coast, and Versal, as well as previously in AGNI, Black Warrior Review, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Harvard Review, and Salamander. Her chapbooks, DOE and Cherry-emily, were published by Particle Series Books (2008) and Dancing Girl Press (2017). She…
The BOI Rushes To, by MARS
feat. Frank Ocean Saturdays involved making out entrances into life outside / we’ve been in this room too long / recreation is keeping us self-contained and aware / of each other’s form Another love becomes ghost & that’s cliché but true Her hair scattered across my bathroom, bedroom floors. Door the shape of…
Boy Company, by Tony Wei Ling
Tony Wei Ling is a teacher, editor, and peer support worker living in Los Angeles. Currently, he’s a managing editor with Nat.Brut and The Rambling.
DeSmet, by Coyote Shook
Coyote Shook is a cartoonist, Appalachian expat, and PhD student living in Austin, Texas where they make comics about the intersections of disability and environmental studies. Their work has been featured in or is forthcoming in The Santa Fe Writers Project, Shenandoah, The San Antonio Review, Honey Literary Magazine, North Dakota Quarterly, The Ransom Center Magazine,…
Theodolite, by Kit Eginton
Why is dysphoria so hard to write about? Well, for something to be hard to write about, what must be true about it? When we write, we try to think of good lines. A good line is concise, it gets to the heart of the matter. A line is a path across a field, a…