Carl Alexandersson

by | Oct 19, 2020 | Featured, Poetry

      Ice aging Look sometimes I just want to lick ice cubes and eat jam straight from the jar and not even bother if the toast is too burnt we all deserve to be seen for what we could have been but this is not about us— Look I’m just saying wouldn’t it...

Tim Murphy

by | Oct 18, 2020 | Featured, Poetry

      The Incident The general mood was optimistic precisely because everything had been prepared to go wrong, and when the performance was unexpectedly beset by several predictable problems, the general mood became even more optimistic. The incident...

Richard Manly Heiman

by | Oct 17, 2020 | Featured, Poetry

      You Were And she could hear the highway breathing And she could see a nearby factory She’s making sure she is not dreaming (Talking Heads, She Was) Out past the peeling smokestacks In a blurring frame of mind You healed me, in the name of A...

Mandy Haggith

by | Oct 16, 2020 | Featured, Poetry

      Otter in shadows You can see where he is, little seeker, by the sparkle of bubbles escaping from his fur, a surface shiver fizzing among bladderwrack. When he starts rummaging in nests on the skerry, the heron flaps off, a flag signalling end of...

Danielle Todd

by | Oct 15, 2020 | Featured, Poetry

      Each night each night I lie in bed, spurred and splintered, to tape your breath, kiss the guinea pig that died in my keep, hair flick, to flick you alive each night I marry a replica of god’s first limb and break his fingers one by one each night...