The Landscape Persists + Letter to E, Corvallis by Natalie Eleanor Patterson The Landscape Persists Hannah drives me to Salem for the first timein ten months exactly. Last time I was on this highway I had someone else’s hand in mine& my own spit limning my hair...
Huitain for Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec by Lizzy Ke Polishan Lizzy Ke Polishan Lizzy Ke Polishan is a poet from Pennsylvania. Her recent work appears in Gulf Coast, The Greensboro Review, RHINO, The Penn Review, and PRISM International, among others. She is a poetry...
So You’re Fluent by Lauren Mallett They ask meThey ask me to prove itThey ask me where I learnedThey ask me but not at home In this house hereBuilt by sea, hand, ropeI dreamed up myself in two languagesMy houseWhere there stops by no inspectorNo money to be...
Smile-5 by Nicholas Brasco I meet McMurphy at the Boom Lift, the one parked next to Building A, at 6:35 a.m. Management’s instructions. We shake hands in greeting, and his big mitt is all rough and chapped, just like his face, leaving my fingers feeling crushed. He...
Piedmonters by Mason Boyles I’m trying to walk myself to sleep when someone stumbles out from the dumpsters behind our apartment and scares the melatonin out of me. “Mothersucker,” she says: Jaylin. I check my reflection in the tint of a Hummer to...
