A Compendium of Gases at Room Temperature in a Transitive State
Robert Omura
About the Author
Robert K. Omura calls Calgary, Alberta, Canada home where he lives with his common law wife […]
A Nearby Town
Pamela Carter
I know a woman who imagines hauling
horrible thoughts from a posterior location
within her skull—where she hears these fester—
Afterwards, the women
Jen If
About the Author
Jen If (she/her) writes poetry and prose from life experience about torture and sexual violence. […]
Agave Oracle
Michael Berton
when the tequila runs out
poets in Mexico will write
elegies to honor
los borrachos
Age is Just a Number
Valerie Sopher
in the Botanical Garden, it’s safe
from people, if you choose the right path
there is an […]
Aquaintance
Fred Pollack
A small clean flat in a mixed low-crime
arrondissement. White wife from
a once-Communist family.
No kids. Familiar […]
At Thirteen
At thirteen
Peeling potatoes in my mother’s kitchen
I never thought I’d ever get to be twenty.
[…]
Breath of Breath, Sighing Sigh
James Bradley
About the Author
James Bradley is an artist and writer living in Portland, Oregon. His paintings […]
DEPTHS / ACROBATICS
Linda McCauley Freeman
I
When I was
little my brother
and I would climb
Fear from Fright
David P. Miller
I carried rubber gloves as prophylactics
against alien doorknobs. We scrubbed
our groceries, panicked that our plague
might be as […]
Fwd: “Extreme Heat Advice – Department of Health – New York State”
Eleonor Botoman
Know the signs of heat-related illness
one day, it’ll be so hot
all the insects in the neighborhood
Outside the Frame
Annette M. Sisson
Outside the Frame
after Remedios Varo’s painting “Rupture”
A woman resists the canvas, her journey—
[…]
POMEGRANATE
Linda McCauley Freeman
I
I put the red wet seed into your mouth
my fingers lingered between your lips
your fingers […]
Postcard from Where You are Not
Susan Schulz
So many things are happening. So many things keep happening you wouldn’t believe it. Or maybe you would. The […]
Quiet
Susan Schulz
—a golden shovel after […]
Sarajevo
Rob Omura
i.
There is a Zen parable about a warrior who slew his master, and to atone for his […]
The Body, Holy Island of Lindesfarne
Annette M. Sisson
This small earth, the tide’s salt-edged tongues, damp licking. Breath eddies, swells the sponge of lungs, lobes suspended amid sky and sea, exhaling, […]
This is Not a Love Song About Water
Robert Omura
“Let me repeat what history teaches. History teaches.” – Gertrude Stein
To write a poem of love you first ascribe: