Category: literature

TWO POEMS – André Osório

From prawn to prawn
the rib dries
unbleached,
aching this unbaked line:

ONE POEM – Ada Pelonia

yesterday blew
like a wind

TWO POEMS – Rachel Tanner

tell me the main differences between salt and nothing.
i will tell you the similarities. i will tell you i need both.

ONE POEM – Amy Lafrankie

A scream is trapped under my third rib where they perch on
like a perilous branch. I daydream of
You: hands on my throat
me: telling you I love you

FLASH FICTION – Judy Darley

Erin hesitates, watching. The old woman is there again, sitting on the swingset overlooking the valley

ONE POEM – Freya Zhang

You know the opposite of moonlight is a nest woven by darkness,
and you know your heart is a place where people ache,
where people no longer feed their birds on fire.

ONE POEM – Nora Selmani

what it would be like to be a skeleton.

what would happen if each dermal layer melted into the air
& my red stop light flesh went with it
without so much as a snap, crackle or pop?

ONE POEM – Julien Chatel

You make a landscape with tiny things
Turn late-night buns into morning seas

TWO POEMS – Penney Knightly

we are wrestling for the same
hooks in time
we are bitter catches
broken holed and punchy

TWO POEMS – Zlatitsa Markova

I fell in love with this city through your eyes
and from the back of taxi cabs.

TWO POEMS – Jack William Mulvaney

Sadly, saw one dead cat
Cut down on pavement side
A few in lament stood over
Its lifeless body, white

ONE POEM – Elizabeth Ruth Deyro

Cold waters caress my feet like lovers kept apart
by chance. Foam meets flesh. Flesh kisses sand deeply,
forming wet clay against my soles. I press harder—