Category Archives: Poetry

Ana C. H. Silva The Best Way I Can Explain It is that there are no more magic shows. I watched them as a kid, sometimes all night, into the morning. The scratchy carpet, the rabbit-eared TV. The birds appearing … Continue reading →

Robin Gow Supermassive What I have left to admit involves science:how black holes can eat each other.             How two black holes can meet            over instant messenger and discover they both know the same languageand are both lonely and are … Continue reading →

Tim Kahl Hellhound                  I was damned by the pitches of the street vendors.They growled their medicine could bring a glimpse of the devil, so I got some and gave a little to the hellhound on my trail. That dog looked … Continue reading →

Jennifer Crow Silk Road Who follows the road beyond the city?Ghosts whirling dust under sunset skiesand wizard-folk sweeping the bone-strewn pathwith the long hems of tattered robesstitched in tarnished sigils and scentedby skin and spice. The guilty creepthrough moonlit valleys, … Continue reading →

T.D. Walker First Generation: The Miner Writes Home to His Grandmother Regarding His Upcoming Wedding             1. Here there are hundreds                     not in part but the whole maybe thousands of things                 like a riveryou’d say no to, like me … Continue reading →

Eva Papasoulioti Voyage Season There are travelers who come back. Not many, buthope bites through bones, and your bones were alreadyfrail, eaten by pesticides and acid rain. The world beyondour world is vast, takes sacrifice, cowardice and gritted teeth to … Continue reading →

Patricia Gomes Where Once We Swam She sits cross-legged on hard-packed dirt, balancing a small clay bowl atop her burnt bald head. Her spine is rigid, her eyes closed. She opens her mouth to catch the overflow from the bowl, … Continue reading →

Peter Milne Greiner Atlas of Guam Ordinary dream: is it time to suspect this planet too is hollow and held aloft by gods in beta or should I hold off for another twenty-nine thousand years Spend the billowing aurorae I … Continue reading →

Anuel Rodriguez Amalgamation How much does a dreamweigh on Earth?she wonders beforeshe falls asleep insidethe eye of a white void—her new embryo ofpolyvalent light. Shapes fill her veinswithout bloodand an eclipse of skinforms under her second skin.She becomes a breathingafterimage; … Continue reading →