Driving
“When night falls / only the mute eyes of roadside deer / keep you alert.”
Perfect Perfect Saturday
By Alli Tervo
“Their whiskers intersect / like neighborly clotheslines / One lifetime / greeting the next”
I tell Mary Magdalene an emotionally unavailable 33 year old man can’t save her but I can
“allow myself an ounce of temptation, / run finger over ragged cuticle and think of my tongue running / along her nail bed”
The Vegetarian
“places the raw chunks / in my stained open-sore mouth, / teaches me to acquire a taste for pain.”
Featured Poetry
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Dating in the Apocalypse Bunker
“And we’re dressed to the nines, in our cleanest / boots, the dust scrubbed from our tanks / until they gleam.”
Deadlines: October & November 2024
Every middle of the month: new deadlines, new contests, and new opportunities for your work to find its audience. Here is a roundup of ten submission opportunities with deadlines in the next two months.
[sand sultan]
“Here are gates with welcoming arms, drapes, gardens // that are all swings and slides.”