IN THE RADIANT AFTERSTORM ❋ Aja Moore
I repurpose a word a place a phrase an act my whole fucking body
HELL LIGHT FLESH [EXCERPT] ❋ Klara du Plessis
Hair has a life of its own. It splits, devilish, two hairs per root
CHORDS ❋ Zachary Cosby
Making out like microphones listening
CORSET LIFE ❋ Obe Alkema
I’m not a regular Millennial, I’m a cool Millennial. Instead of imagining my emotions in metaphors I declare that I have emotions
SPOKANE VALLEY ❋ Angie Sijun Lou
Lately you’ve been thinking about hiccups on the freeway, the difference between meditation and oblivion
ANTIMONY (AGAINST LONELINESS) ❋ Charles Gonsalves
And that all you have are the hopes that someone wants to see you Take your clothes off
NO EXIT ❋ EE Jarvie
picture this: i’m on hold with customer service standing on the never-ending escalator in the super mall of my mind
ALL MY SENSES WIDE OPEN ❋ Charlotte von Fritschen
I LEFT THE LAPTOP TO GO LOOK AT THE SKY I WATCHED A WHOLE SUNSET
AGAINST RADICAL SOFTNESS ❋ Aeon Ginsberg
Okay hear me out, my friends are soft homes I find my head resting into
AS DONALD TRUMP IS BEING INAUGURATED ❋ Linette Reeman
a girl and i stagger out of a tear-cloud and shake into each other’s mouths. there is no one i love out of necessity
WHEN YOU WERE JUNG ❋ Mallory Smart
you began like two people on a rock you stood, drinking coffee on a rock your life in shambles on a rock
POEM READ ON THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JIMMY FALLON ❋ Mike Bushnell
the clouds move twenty thousand feet above the mountain and I am in my little apartment thinking about cleaning
[RECEIPT PAPER POEMS] ❋ Sophia Reuss
to discern petals from the leaves, a seam traces my memory’s curve–
I AM THE OCEAN TONIGHT AND YOU ARE A GREAT DISTANCE ❋ Johnny Kiosk
i am starting to feel something resembling a fierce desire to move away from myself at lightspeed toward a cold silent massive void
FROM EARTH WITH LOVE, ALSO SOME OTHER EMOTIONS ❋ Sarah Edwards
Hey spaceman! Forget gravity & make love to the 500 ton sky brain you can float & I will close my eyes so you can make love to bush babies crunching on your breath
BLUE-TIFUL ❋ Daphné B.
one day someone will hold you so tight you will feel whole again two penguins kiss on my Facebook thread loneliness has no age it has every hour
GETTING IN THE WAY OF THE WAY ❋ Laura Broadbent
Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding
A NERVOUS LAUGH [EXCERPT] ❋ Matthew Sherling
a tree behind a TV in a spacious den, a tree wrapped in toilet paper, two trees wrapped around each other, two trees whose limbs scrape asphalt
FOR MOUNA IN NEW MEXICO ❋ Brad Casey
the land where we stand is the skin of a peach and the galaxy is a pancake
COAX COATLICUE ❋ Abra Gist
Until that day, I thought I was just another chicana – or a gringa to mi familia
ON DEVOTION TO CHANGE ❋ Jeremy Boyd
it is hardly morning but the air is full of life
CASUAL NOTES ON ADDICTION ❋ Mackenzie Matthew Perras
so i remember your square teeth bright music or dogs swimming through tall blades of green
PARTS| DARLET-LIT.ONTHE BRUSH ❋ Matthew E. Duffy
now without a need to ever go back home away from the sea, away fromt’h the dustsz. sing with what might pull down the ever-which catches at the seams
A: INTERLOCUTOR E: INTERLOCUTOR X: OUIJA BOARD ❋ Ali Pinkney
A: Is there human spirit more than corporeal? X: Yes. A: Does it survive death? X: Yes. A: Where does it go?
POEM ACROSS FOUR MONTHS ❋ Natasha Young
We were sitting outside on blankets drinking mushroom tea and my scraggly-haired baby compassionately touched my ankle and knee while he was talking to my friends for me