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Seashell with a Void in the Middle  

Shall hold a life like a cupped palm, lash in the ocean. It knows   the best exoskeletons   protect the glass self sleeping inside.  How to define oneself as a self  that is only itself without the self it … Read More

by Rachel Stone on December 6, 2015

11/13

bangs and pops, in videos on screens a number says something’s wrong black writing: they had guns you wince a repeated trope: men in black stand before yellow tape in a bath, red and blue supine bodies float on frames … Read More

by Nathan Leach on December 6, 2015

Riesling Poem

The night is dry & we confuse the bartender by ordering rotwein instead of rose. I’m using royal. I’m halfway through the glass when a 34-year-old man doesn’t ask to strip my skintight pink dress to light the years in … Read More

by Katherine Frain on October 24, 2015

Song for Us

You brought me orange juice in bed as the sun began to throw its spears into the hanging dust. Anything you’d like to do today? Nothing really, besides the juice. I clicked on the tape we had been listening to. … Read More

by Nathan Leach on October 24, 2015

fingers wrist and neck

So he was not a god; so you slept tightly and still sweet; so all the ribbons came unfastened from your wall, descending to the rug like serpents freed;

by Isabel Henderson on October 4, 2015October 4, 2015

This is what I’ll remember about being a kid:

huddling under the covers and knowing

that if an elbow or toe peeked out,

whatever passing gods there were

would steal it before midnight…

by Aron Wander on August 11, 2015August 11, 2015

msg 2 my ghost

ghost,

im chasing u round the attic. u lead me round my attic, over chintzy 50s carpet, circumnavigating staircase well b/c u r scared 4 me—wild ghost chase? but there r many floors & rooms here & our friends r at a party in the next room…

by Samuel Bollen on August 11, 2015August 11, 2015

Orderliness

I am starting to become unsure about nonsense

by Eliza Mott on April 26, 2015April 26, 2015

Exfoliation

Each morning I watch my form reflected in the mirror

by Kat Kulke on April 26, 2015April 26, 2015

Makkot 25a

by Ayelet Wenger on April 26, 2015April 26, 2015

The Deal

The deal man.

The fucking deal.

by Byrd Pinkerton on April 18, 2015

Ode to Daniel Pinkwater

CREATURES OF THE SWAMP

UNITE

by Byrd Pinkerton on April 18, 2015


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