HAITI + THE EGG, THE WISH, AND THE RESOUNDING CRACK by Simone Reid HAITI Eleven and all the months were summer The night was a great big bug I swallowed like the woman slipping into my grandfather’s room Everything was a concrete wall and nobody ever...
Nones by Peter Munro Sing when all the horseflies sing of meat. Twitch your skin eleven times and bare for us. When all the air wavers with heat, when all the biters wing- work harmonies and drone as if to declare provender, tell us where. Tell us— we who are here—...
Care Package by Ali Morretta I’d been at boarding school for a month when my mother sent me a boyfriend in a box. His name was All-American Alex, and he hailed from a novelty kiosk in the mall. Alex was ten inches tall and made of carcinogens, with silky brown hair...
3 Untitled American Sonnets by Jackson Burgess God came down from heaven & told me my life’s purposeis to collect abandoned shopping carts. God told meto make herbal tea. God told me to crouch & savethe web-stuck moth while on the phone my brother’sbrother...
Carmen by Isabela Sanderson Last Wednesday my girlfriend turned into a fairy. Not the Celtic kind, or Elven kind, or Eastern European or anything good like that—she turned into the pixie kind. With dust and sparkles and diamonds and little wings that glimmer brighter...
