Yoemon and Kasane
“The folding mirror: In which a skull’s eye sockets gleam, / And you can pour blood over it.”
Poetry
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The Domesticated Troubadour
By Jaydn DeWald
“he’s sure the romance will return / someday in a sweep of cheatgrass cloud- / shadows drifting over his open palms but then / where will his kids be”
Cytokinesophobia
By Don Hogle
“Anything / that can, will divide, double and / eventually become a rain”
Learning to Weld
By Rina Terry
“welded one thing to another / as though I had a plan, an idea, a goal, / as though any of the pieces of my life // had connected in certain identifiable / completion.”
baby teeth
they say I was born fanged & feathered like / no child from heaven should be. a miracle // that when I lost those teeth I became human.
A feast of small proportions
All meal long, the brain tucked in its dome and the heart cubed, / presented on six white plates.
At the Scottish National Gallery Looking at ‘The Wave’ by Gustave Courbet
By Gina Fuchs
my father ran / into the water and i went behind him / into the water too then yelled i can’t swim, / i still can’t swim. it sounds like bodies, / the rain slapping the water so hard.
About the Weather
By Todd Smith
“where women with aspirations / spread salve onto the muscles // of grown men they call Baby, / where bean walkers piss steam // into the last half-hour before / dawn”
Fig
By Dani Janae
“A fig without its juice is just / the waist of a woman, honey / butter.”