TWO POEMS – Vanessa Napolitano

I become great at darts, a phenomenon
on dart circuits, earning enough from darts
to pay for lobster rolls

TWO POEMS – Hana Wilde

maybe they look down
at their bodies as they left them

in neat rows, heads of wheat
crackling green and gold

FICTION | Summer Buzz 1960 – Anne Irwin

She arms herself with the metal pipe of the Electrolux
with the precision of a marksman

ONE POEM – Steven Brisendine

(coffee, pastry,
food-words,
unfettered time)

TWO POEMS – Elliot Ruff

Words words words black as a cat. 
I just saw you in the periphery of 
Manet’s Olympia — or maybe Cézanne’s

COMFORT FOODS // Ode to the Palta – Ulrike Durán Bravo

…across the bitter world, a sweet gift from Pachamama
like my father who taught me to feel
and press its skin: a map of lost worlds

TWO POEMS – Simon French

For the good of the country we claimed their land & property. It was necessary for the people.

ONE POEM – Helen Ferris

In the southern heat,
giddiness spread in a slick of sweat.
A stale and sweet smell embraced the girls
as they danced and danced
and would not stop dancing.

ONE POEM – Balfour McBride

They rose up overnight
like a hallucination—
misshapen, pock-marked, deformed
littering the lawn in the dozens.

ONE POEM – Emily Tee

and there, by the weekend-quiet school, at the edge of the pavement, was the mouse
lying on its side, a small trickle of blood / from its open mouth

ONE POEM – Susan Shea

we can sit next to each other
looking out in the same direction
at our life smudges
together

ONE POEM – Carolyn Oulton

You offer me tea (a cardigan, story)
and someone else to make it,
which we all 
pretend not to notice.