Porridge

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

Body Positivity and Fat Acceptance – Changing the World to Suit Personal Grievances? – Catherine Drysdale

I originally wanted to write an article about how different diets suit different people, and how breaking away from my father’s belief in the Atkins diet and doing my own research was liberating for me. I had hoped that those reading this article would find a similarly freeing effect, and it would give them hope…

ONE POEM – Ian C. Smith

For those who forego the languor of home ground, that lethal rapine of routine, the most compelling sound of the travelling life might be a ferry’s foghorn throughout the night

COMFORT FOODS // Tortang Talong — Sadia Pineda Hameed

I receive a call from my mother. It is to tell me a recipe for tortang talong, which she learnt last night in a dream.

ONE POEM – Emily Barker

A drunk girl came up to me in a club last week and told me, yet again, that I look exactly, no, exACtly–Sarah! Come over here! Doesn’t she look exACtly like our Hannah?

ONE POEM – Clifford Brooks

Vacant of leaves
and shell-wrapped gifts,
dad and I can see the sky.

ONE POEM – Linda M. Crate

the fox and i
shared one glance
i think about it all the time

ONE POEM – Jack B. Bedell

and as soon as I touched the freezer’s handle,
the tar wall behind it rippled.

ONE POEM – Maura Way

I’m ready for the ritual
where I get crowned a
crone.