Issue #35 Jul 03, 2022

Irrelevant Daughters

1 Comment
July 3, 2022July 3, 2022
by Susan Michele Coronel

You’re tied to kin that capture
your heart in moonlight
but your hallucinations
are made up of mechanisms
of distrust, dotted
with purple aster.
Inside a church: shoes
lined up … Read more

Promise Me

2 Comments
July 3, 2022July 18, 2022
by Sarwa Azeez

that you will put me in a gun
and shoot my loneliness from me
when I turn into a bullet

throw me into a river
so my swimming body can … Read more

Not Now

July 3, 2022July 3, 2022
by Michal Rubin

we challenged you to write about our people who were unjust victims, he said

she knew her dislike of the pleasure of holding onto victimhood

and the image of her … Read more

SENTIENT POEM

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July 3, 2022July 3, 2022
by Matthew King

Dear reader, I think
I think, therefore you think I am
like you.
You think that you think, too.
I like you.
I think I love
you and I know … Read more

Around Me

July 3, 2022July 3, 2022
by Gabrielle Galchen

Everyone around me is falling.

Everyone around me is a candle
Caught in a storm.
The earth is graying
With little white lights flicking in the sky.
Trees are heaving … Read more

You Were Right Five Years Ago

July 3, 2022July 3, 2022
by Sara Clancy

— for my daughter on the day Roe v Wade was reversed

In answer to your worry, ratcheted up
by all the world, I offered that the ship
would right … Read more