Category Archives: Poetry

Ann K. Schwader Re Extinction The mastodons were bad enough. Who thought revisiting the Late Anthropocene would be a good idea? We forgot how long it took to get the planet clean last time, perhaps. But female apes survived, & … Continue reading →

Katharyn Howd Machan Hooded What bird will you be when you are reborn? …………I will be a Roman crow. What song will you sing each holy night? …………No song. I will allow no music. What feather will you drop when … Continue reading →

Fendy S. Tulodo The Virgin of Thorns There’s a town that moved five inches left each year. It’s not on any maps anymore. They say its clock tower is ticking backward, and the mayor is three children in a coat. … Continue reading →

Lisa Kamolnick Relapse You hover; smile like starshine alongside the inviting aroma of basil and tomatoes, when you take a turn in our tiny kitchen and lose your way.…..How strange ……to become disoriented in such a familiar place. A glitch … Continue reading →

Hannan Khan Futures Like Foreplay we were vowed hoverboards, sexless chromes & cities that sailed above consequences; instead, i poise in a field of sunflowers, their hefty heads craning not for luster but for the low purr of surveillance of … Continue reading →

Kimberly Becker Aftermath I didn’t want to look, because seeing what will be is harder to anticipate than living into misfortune blindly, like the rest But I could not resist the lure of power (few can) and so I looked … Continue reading →

Ian Li what spirits need on lonely nights when the dead clamber into your candlelit speakeasy, melancholy etched on blanched faces, you never turn them away, for their glimmerless eyes tell you why they’ve surfaced, why they require an extra … Continue reading →

Hannya Kay Through Hades and Beyond …………Crown Cinquain A path of stones and sand will stretch along the sky for those who die alone. Why should I fear? I fear in darkened dread, my life a memory that ebbs and … Continue reading →

Hannan Khan Falling Between Seconds the clock is black hole tickticktickticktickticktickticktickticktick— 12:01 AM and i’m already falling …………………………………………………drifting…………………………….slipping ………………………………………………………………….spinning new year’s resolutions like a torn confetti in a sooty …………………………………………………………………………………. subway tunnel like nostalgic receipts from last year’s bad decision— … Continue reading →