POETRY
attends
Sofija Stankovic
February 4, 2025
memory sends rivulets in slalomdown her spine, belligerent skeins spin awayfrom fingers tangling twine instead of touch,attends or attends? move or move on tostep into the painting over a crib,rocking in the wake of loveless lossbending timber to a pestilent point;splinters hop on high into irate iris,negligence finds just desserts ...
leg-thing
Patrick Ignasiak
February 4, 2025
crisscrossing such full of probes who full of magnitude with each adheres: even before how to bend in several directions since adjusts in outerletting – the heavy as though he rode full of our fibres full of each others’ toward-the-germ-line, one after for you thereby enabled in habit and discarding ...
progressive dirty talk
Jessica Beswick
February 4, 2025
i appreciate you mentioning the dichotomy of my 10 inch clit and moderately sized tits but first, we must assess the accessibility of the space for my bare naked thighs and ass additionally, as Westerners, we must circle back to how we represent my kike schnoz being ovaries deep in ...
Somptult
Patrick Ignasiak
January 22, 2025
There are many meshed and just enough, so in their brittle wakefulness molluscs that lumped. Cancerous behind their voices. Shook their shadows before the slough-off began in earnest. Rolling out horsedark, heat with too much mouthing as to breed thin annihilates the rest of our habit-retition. Bodies that tick and ...
[Take a long walk off a short pier]
Catriona Aikman
January 22, 2025
Take a walk off a short pier.Why don’t youTake a running leap off the dockWell the short sharp shockWon’t kill you.If you shoot first ask laterIn a while, alligatorYou learn toExcise cliché, leave only raw meaningSkinned redStripped of its significationAnd therefore worthless.
SCRAPS
Grace Eaton
January 22, 2025
I’m 19 and it’s mid-afternoon on a Sunday. Or maybe it’s 8pm. I have to be the storyteller now. Make love out of history. THE LOVE YOU WANT SO BADLY IS ALREADY WITHINYOU. YOU ARE IT. YOU HAVE BEEN IT SINCE YOUWERE BORN. YOUR MOM SAID, “WHEN I HAD YOU, ...
sedation
Sophie Stankovic
December 9, 2024
Gesticulating ginger roots to knuckle-bones in rivers scrapedof solitude sallow and sinkingfeeling sends moonshine minglingflexing her fingers in jugscharcoal chisels sentience into itchyrays peddling pith and prowesspressing spoons to fluttering lidsladen with lentils and mildewsatiating the supplicant snail
i do not know banyan trees
Jennifer Chiou
December 9, 2024
instead florida palms and pines,home sits in grid-rows of asphalt shingles and gleaming canals,no grand mountains, no ancient valleys.home is young and foreign––like me, sometimes,who was born on this soil but sidelined to kick the dirt.i dug for roots and found only earthworms,i buried acorns and no great oaks emerged,not ...
The ecstasy of germs
Patrick Ignasiak
December 9, 2024
These smithereens I – our little segmentations, clearly visible, emerges as human bodies, as the mood to fill your apartment with liquid and enjoy the city straightjacket-ed (our apparatus of production), which can only swift over dissilence narrowest at the shy white nothingness, some morphogenesis of k-drips mustering glassed perceptions ...
drive me mad formless one
Luke Ax
December 9, 2024
It’s been three months since you left,and I’m lying on my back in thegrass, picturing your crag-toothed slot-canyon grin, mybody pouring into the coldempty sky and wistfullywarming some far-away world. As the frost slinks across mybones, I am circumcised. My well-worn voicetears at the night, fingers scrapingacross the star-brightsky. But ...