Porridge Magazine

TWO POEMS – Alexandre Ferrere

I had
one chance out of zero,
but spent a youth chasing
what I am still not.

REVIEW – The Liars’ Asylum (Stories) by Jacob M. Appel – Vanessa Braganza

Appel turns his professional interest in the workings of the human mind to a narrative exploration of the reasons we tell lies.

ONE POEM – Lauren Bender

points for you if you are boss of the building, every lock
warm at your fingertips, every door’s soft click
yours as it shuts, every window with your face
reflected in it.

ONE POEM – Richard Brostoff

Above the house a low sun like a wrecking ball,
the world at the horizon splintered like a Rothko

ONE POEM – Stephen House

i order a long black
he looks at me
man on man gaze

i smile

ONE POEM – Paul Robert Mullen

douse it douse it douse it
strike a match and freeze the scene

TWO POEMS – Natalie Crick

I want to feel
the warm milk of your smile.
I want to see your reflection
in the moon’s mirror, polished like spring bones.

PHOTOGRAPHY – Charlie Speck

Beautiful photographic studies of the outdoors in black and white.

POETRY – Chavonne Brown

She was not like unwitting prey,
That had never sighted the lion;
She fled from him, knowing
As she did what it meant…

TWO POEMS – Nadia Patterson

i’d put stickers all over the moon
and hang it from the ceiling
in the living room

5 COLLAGE POEMS – J.I. Kleinberg

sunshine snacked on
a little
morning

ONE POEM – A. Martine

Brown girl: you don’t get a plot twist. Your story’s been penned
with strokes as hollow as they are spiteful