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Poetry

[caption for a photo of a mother and daughter in the slums of romania]

by Rowan Tate

i have a peach in my hands like a bee sting, the crescent of her cheek soft. somewhere on green mountains, dirt layers. she tells me not to tell her ...read the full piece >>

Poetry

Before You Go

by Lise Reingruber

Sestina Instructions for traveling to the underworld you hold a lion on a leash, you are a dove a Venus, the morning and evening star you open your ...read the full piece >>

Poetry

body-bound

by Veronica Vo

the lord cut her open in a white coat wanting nothing but legacy, on a bright Texas morning to remind us where the horizon lay. I was something small ...read the full piece >>

Poetry

dream en abya yala

by Alan Palacios

where the flesh of jacarandas shifts across the invisible layers cosmic fabrics tear return us (to) the land like a miraged plateau hidden within our ...read the full piece >>

Poetry

rejection #22

by Dianna Vega

did you ever hear of a girlmaker? they pour glass in molds of sugar, skin, and skull. they measure your outline with a fatal lack of precision, as ...read the full piece >>

Poetry

Texas Fish

by Lajward Zahra

Wretched past refuses me, will not swallow the pain from the present. Suctions, the way you did. Saliva on my ant bites adding to the itch like the ...read the full piece >>

Poetry

to conjure / conjure away

by Susanne Sophie Schmalwieser

we’ve been speaking since january or so and now the trees are growing flowers mostly pinks and whites i tell you how the hills in Morocco rest soft ...read the full piece >>

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