property tax by Savannah Slone welcome to the aftershockof possession. mirror, smokyquartz, self-interviews.swallowing fat pills downnarrow airways. findingwildflowers in the smog,you are encased in neonarcade glow, murmuringescape plans. moldingyourself into...
Say by Lauren Mallett All this to say keep an eye out.I’d say somethingif I thought anythingwere up. All this to say there was this one time.There were bison.They tended to stand and eat. All this to say no pets.But plants, anyhow.And the light bulbsthat grow them....
The Mechanical Bird Writes an Ars Poetica (Dear X, -B) by Caroline Chavatel Dear X,Because the dreams in which I flyabove myself are the most pleasing.Because in winter there are never enough words to beg for warmth.Because if I were to paintmy face, you’d still...
Another Balikbayan In Which Ma Asks Her Kids To Go To Mass With Her Pero No One Ever Does by Dujie Tahat So in went the Word—for it was the first day.The second, Father was away. My motherfolded the hand-me-downs slowly to formperfect angles. The basket...
Mm! by Daniel D’Angelo So, one of those gray paintingsyou look at and see other colors vibrating, and shapes decide to surface and shift withinthe limits of the frame. Oh, one of those shifted paintings where you can definitely seered horses with rad dudes...
Indifference + Edgewood Creek by Ed Skoog Indifference When you come, bread will be pulled from ovens,soot braiding up the bakery’s white stucco, and freshly-laundered curtains will permit entryof our famous sunlight through the flowering gauze to enrage the deep true...
