wedged cheese by Jillian Scocca Your tangent should probably find cos or sine But if you’re going to be so green-yellow sour First, get all the ducks at lemonade stands donning graphic garb in a row, you very hungry rainbow caterpillar of crayon Find cos, find cause or another word for strange, [...]
the fruits of labor are not enough by Chelsey Keith Ignacio the fruits of labor are not enough to build a backyard. we can only fill the bowl but leave the basket with artificial oranges in dust. in an ideal dinner, the land’s story of mango tree is not the root of [...]
Tender Maps of Landscape by Loralee Clark Our stories are not told anymore; are we not still sheaves of wheat, gold stored for the future like the moon that swells and hides again to ponder questions answerable when species are in concert with one another like fungi teaching land plants to root, [...]
Ripening by L. Drake When the ripe apricot hot with three o’clock sun fleshy cheeks taut pregnant with its future poised to be something else ready to dent or disappear finally drops will you — in love with its shape and symmetry — wish it back to its branch to be [...]
Writing, Death Anointing the World by André Marques Chambel She is sat at the table, leg-crossed, But not in the way one crosses a leg over the other. She is sat at the table, leg-crossed, Like the legs of a spider or the root system of a tree Cross with the [...]
Beneath Burnt Brown Fur by Rebecca St. Pierre Elusive finned ribbons flowing in rippled sky suddenly take flight. Her teeth clamp on a whitecap, fat snout filling with frigid water, droplets glistening on mountains of muscles beneath burnt brown fur. She plunges beneath the swirling eddies, where the air is thin, seizes [...]
Delighted To Be The Oak by Bella Osborn The trees are quiet looking when in the dark. The mess of overgrown leaves are overjoyed at the idea of hugging the larger oak. When did I become the oak? Hugged and lulled by the gentle touch of an ivy? Soothed and even [...]
to the bee crawling on Maya Angelou’s book by Sharisa Aidukaitis sure I suppose you can read along, traversing pathways of love and aspiration and tasting sublimely crafted phrases, except your presence makes me queasy and the lyrical ink is starting to swim so I wonder if you could fly down [...]
A Theory of Four Walls by Aaron Lelito Stepping out onto the street —self and other— to look for the cracks suspended in bodies and how real they seem in the moment you realize that breaking the egg is both an expression of avoiding extremes and the creation of a series of [...]
Buying Supplies on the Island by Donna J. Gelagotis Lee En route to the village with shops for food and supplies, I calculated how much I would need to buy and how much I would need to hide, such as extra toilet tissue and bottled water, because villagers didn’t drink bottled water and [...]
