*some**
Anti-
“Dawn’s raw scraping awful when you’ve become a mollusk without a shell again.”
Lee Ann Roripaugh, Sleepless Graffiti
Mira Martin-Parker, Flesh Eater
Travis Brown, Bobwhite
Blue Fifth Review
“You read yourself from cover to cover.”
George Moore, Survivor Tactics
Eileen Tabios, Alchemy at the Maykadeh: Dinner with Philip Lamantia
Yun Wang, Meditation on Hair
Cha
“She grasps my hands when I kiss her shoulder. As she responds she recites the recipe for cooking pork with honey. Use honey from Alaska, she insists.”
Nirmala Pillai, The Killing
Jason Lee, 45 Belgrave Square
Surajit Chakravarty, Taste
The Chimaera
“The battle of Ivy League sweatshirts/was raging behind us.”
Jennifer Reeser, Sonnet 23 from The Dark Lady
Rick Mullin, Distraction
Geoff Page, Seeing People
decomP
““I like your toes,” she says. “They’re like a frog’s—bigger at the tip, you know. Your feet smell.” “
Jeannie Galeazzi, Aeronauts
Stefan Kiesbye, Home
Jessa Marsh, My Motel Week
Emprise Review
“I burned the sacraments.”
Michelle Reale, Snow Blind
Steven J. McDermott, Wheel Clatter
Barbara Yien, If You See Buddha On The Road, Kill Him
The Flea
“Hasn’t there been enough of dropping/The quarter hours and the whole in chimes?”
Stephen Edgar, Vertigo
Marly Youmans, Clock of the Moon and Stars
Mark Allinson, Hydrangeas
kill author
“He kisses me and it feels like a car crash.”
J. A. Tyler, jimmy and his Father and the Ways About Them
Emma J. Lannie, Proxy
Audri Sousa, you kept repeating the same patterns that alienate me so i went away from you and reenacted us with plastic bottles while the lesbian ghost tried to have sex with me
Monkeybicycle
“I think probably all past decades have some major drawback or another, but it seems like any of them would be fine to visit as a tourist.”
Meg Pokrass, What the Doctor Ordered
Angi Becker Stevens, If Everything is Inevitable
Dallas Woodburn, Numb
PANK
“Wrap your arms around me so I feel how small I am.”
Lauren Becker, You Should Know
Steven J. McDermott, Sliver
Brandi Wells, Instructional
Poemeleon
“My chest is a guitar hole/and I’m jacking up the music until the windows break.”
Jo Scott-Coe, Not So Gay at the YMCA
Diane Seuss, Baby goodbye
Lafayette Wattles, Soup Kitchen
Shit Creek Review
“Urgency clings like a silken lining against the air.”
Janice D. Soderling, After the Funeral
Timothy Murphy, Prayer for a Horseman
Michael Cantor, Death Watch
Sweet: A Literary Confection
“the air barely brushing the trees//the way you might touch the hair of someone/you loved once”
Geoff Schmidt, Otis and Jake
Jason Tucker, Kudzu Got Angry
Tim Seibles, 4am
Thirst For Fire
“The cleaning lady steps off the bus and thinks, “That man’s voice sounds the way shoe polish smells.””
Gregg Williard, Cleaning Lady
Nate Innomi, The Frame Maker
Will Spires, The Wall (on Which She Hangs)
**done
