Before the Hard Freeze by Kevin McLellan I couldn’t do anythingabout it, swallowed a shallow lake, arctic one, wore a first barrette.Natural way to identify as female, right? My hair longenough. Also a first. And then what could be a last timewhen I move to Vermont....
Social Media by Emma Bolden If your life is extraordinary enough, the Internet becomes a plotof land in which you plant the clues that make your lies grow into truths. A therapist on Instagram says, think of the thing you would like to do most on most days. Then do...
Eric Cortez by Paul Hlava Ceballos In a lineage of effects,proud scrapper who threw fists to foolsthat dissed us little ones, you failedonly what teachers made you do, and thrived in gripped communion ofbackyard weight bench where a head nodwas more than history gave...
On Past Suicidal Ideations by Annie Przypyszny At the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, Maryland,there’s a model of a Carcharocles megalodon skeleton.It’s thirty-seven feet long, suspended from the ceiling by strong, thin wires, the wall behind it imitatingthe blue...
Three Ghazals: an Elegy by Leah C Scott 1. On a Mountain in GuanajuatoThe river was cool, high altitude air and green mossbeneath my hips. Silver stone, silt and clean mossbeneath your palms. You, bowed over me: arco irisin the wet sun. Your body: of water, of lean...
Omphalos : Epoch by Kelly Weber Who taught you stars are just milk, sweating?Who taught your body to unfold? Behind the latched coal of your mouthis the girl who pushed down the boywho told you that you were not strong. Today you do not have to feel nice.You can barb...
