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introducing the body  size thirty-four B tits, forty-four round hips slim twenty-nine-inch waist  thick thighs I used to once hate  a gap so spaced that words fly out of it a forehead so big you could play chess on it  … Read More

by Deity on April 5, 2025April 5, 2025

Blackness in Residence

The Amistad sails a silent scream across the sea.  In its wake, a dark tapestry woven with violence.  Mouths in the hold lie open, inaudible, begging for the nothingness that is everything.    On this ship, terror lurks.  A violence … Read More

by Christopher Butcher on April 5, 2025

Love Is

Love is an expression simple to understand but tough to maintain. It’s like a symphony of instruments  created individually but only complete together. The catch being that the notes are obscure. The sheet music is unscripted and all that’s left … Read More

by Nnamdi Udeogu on April 5, 2025April 5, 2025

A Restaurant in Hayward

Mmm, linoleum floors, my favorite, I think.   It’s 7:30 am, according to the analog clock on the wall, and I’m officially pissed at being up this early  for my driver’s license exam.   “Window 10 is OPEN!” an older … Read More

by Aminah Aliui on April 5, 2025

Trapped

The tracing of distress tailored against the coarse lining ripples and bumps engulf flickers of dim hope. The clashing dissonance overwhelms one boundary, edging to the brim of its inverse. The tracing persists. Wrenching and tugging at seams of a … Read More

by Nnamdi Udeogu on April 5, 2025

Okro anaghi eto kari onye kuru ya

Ma snatched me out her stomach on a Wednesday. My first day as abrupt as it could be Gather the elders, gather the aunties. Ma didn’t plan on having me They sang a song to put her at ease Her … Read More

by Chisom Nwadinobi on April 5, 2025April 5, 2025

An Unparalleled Catastrophe, Ancestral Wisdom Made Flesh

The human brain coevolved with the emergent faculties of language and storytelling. Memory and narrative are not merely byproducts of cognition; they are fundamental to how we organize experience across time.  For humans, the physical body does not precede the … Read More

by Christopher Butcher on April 5, 2025

Pieta

Print. for Mickey  a spluttering birth.  matter and hope, all  poison or ponzu – all recycled.        polished clone.  Crown,          knoll. seasoned  with milky weed. skin,  ours. sin,    Everyone is.   Prrint. worm, … Read More

by Heidi Ukyung Nam on March 28, 2025

Será tu nombre

Vals peruano

by Francisco Alejandro on March 28, 2025March 28, 2025

Names for a blackened stove

Hear it this evening, rusted lace fingers and remnants of dirty flame. It has a    large mouth, though never eyes on that gaping   face. Sings with empty room voices: oil and metal,   dustrag fumes, wood polish shallows. … Read More

by Daniel Viorica on February 28, 2025March 2, 2025

Pearly Whites

As my pearly whites crunch  into the powdered sugar, chew  it like thick, hot sand, as my tongue  melts it to stained glass, as I pray to baby Jesus  sucking on his lollipop, as his first molar waits  to come … Read More

by Lily Hutcheson on February 28, 2025

Crook

After Robert Frost

by Lily Hutcheson on February 21, 2025February 21, 2025


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