Kate and I lie on the floor / on the hottest day of August / letting the open cups of our armpits / runneth over.
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Two Poems by David Moolten
They shot your mother and you screamed / until she explained, go back to sleep. / Allentown’s south side was a jungle, / hockshops, drug corners, always cars / “backfiring.”
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Motion Picture Portent by Bethany Rose Datuin
I go ambient in the fabric of the black, / a velvet dark embracing my body. // The projector flickers brief color across / the soft of it like a sky just before dusk.
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Don Quixote Tilting With California Windmills by Ed Coletti
When I can, I bypass / Highway 580 West through / the scorching Altamont Pass, / best remembered for a 1971 Stones concert / marred by Hells Angels violence…
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Two Poems by Colette Cosner
There is a difference / between happiness and scouring the bayou / for something akin.
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Two Poems by Anna Newman
I wept when the doctor gave me a name for what was causing / the bloated pink growths to bloom unchecked across / the field of my organs...
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Anacostia by Linette Marie Allen
K is for Ka, face to face, / like a night guarding a pen. / That’s what we do.
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Two Poems by Sean Cho A.
I once believed distance meant a lack of sound, / but lately silence screams like a falling leaf. / The morning emails offer no relief, / just time zones measured in lost and found.
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Two Poems by Carrie Shipers
Of the siblings / I can reach, one says we were lucky / to survive, and one gets stuck / repeating we were loved.
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All Light Is Half Light by John A. Nieves
Some cold nights the fog tinkles against the wind- / ows and shushes along the roof like a paper bag.
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Queer Femme Asks A Man To Forgive Their Sin by Mateo Perez Lara
I wait for an arrow quiver / strike to kill my aches / & when I look in the mirror / I want to throw knives
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Two Poems by Jude Achilles Misick
I spent my childhood practicing girlhood, / wearing dresses that flowed around my ankles, / and stuffing myself full of honey
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Two Poems by Jeannine Gailey
I walk outside and above us an open mouth / to the universe – light streaming towards us, / an invitation.
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Oysters Rockefeller by Brad Kavo
News comes back your cancer has spread, / so we go out to celebrate / you not being dead / yet.
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A Normal Interview with William Archila by Angelina Leaños
This is the great thing about immersing myself in the world I am creating in my work. The tropes, concepts, the culture and history, the places and characters, they all come together.
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Transplant by Yance Wyatt
our feet seized by quicksand / as the ocean breathes in and out / in and out / like one great pneumonic lung
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LEAVE ME AT THE BREAK by Benjamin Faro
Altogether we were / uncountable, and another / of us we abandoned / at the shore.
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Peach Ode by Matt Poindexter
Sweet teenage goths, come back / from evening’s municipal cemeteries / and haunt the living for a minute.
Come In Go Ahead Say Again by Christopher Citro
Skies have moods. We gave these / to them. Named the rivers. Imagine that.
Two Poems by Court Castaños
An old man will watch us, openly / stare, two boys in a Nevada diner / leaning towards each other, a touch / too close.