Highway Pantoum by Kathrine DuVal
Buses are lonesome beasts. When there’s snow outside, the quiet is deadly. Once, I was small as a strawberry seed— The lines on the road...
Crouching Aphrodite or Learning to Love the Unlovable by Iris E. McPherson
“Deathless Aphrodite of the spangled mind” -Sappho translated by Anne Carson She crouches upon the pedestal that presents her in all her...
Annual Letter Home by Devin Snell
Death was summer camp. Untied shoe laces, blue balls. Sun meant waking up. I left mud stained on her dress, leaving the mound after a...
Soft Corner by Devin Snell
Soft drink pinks the sugar tree. Some dew pepper tinkers a slow treasure. Sweat dippings cream in runway. Sweetness felt fattening....
Daisy Fresh Girl* by Julia Daly
he was always trying to catch something sweet perhaps a drizzle of honey from the hive of bees that hangs from the tree in your mother’s...
Bleach Gives The Kitchen A Clean Crisp Smell by Caitlin Mayes
I put five drops of lavender oil Into a spray bottle To freshen the carpets And the pet fur. Crimson cheeks and foggy glasses greet me...
Untitled by Nick Tartive
“I spent all my goddamn money from a tour payout and took her out on the town. And somewhere out in the middle, I swear to god the stars...