I Just Became That Guy

By Jacob Kreutzer I do not understand why, but midway through the pastor’s melancholy speech, my mind drifts to that time you streaked down Elm Street shouting to the late night world that you were free. A burst of laughter escapes my mouth and all eyes find me. Stuck in that box, you are again [...]

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2 Dozen Oysters

By Michael Goscinski “My boyfriend has a fetish for these” she said “At least once a month he has to have them they’re an aphrodisiac you know and man is he good in bed afterwards gimme 2 dozen” She was about 4 foot 9 had the face of a gerbil an overbite greasy hair walnut [...]

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White Flag

By Kristin Roybal I’m trying not to find the way out of Stella and into peach fuzz Macy’s way of life—all hard lemonade and dad’s rifles from the 1880s. If you didn’t fly to Arizona on the weekend I would have kept the final countdown underneath the guardrail of the inner mission—that the rest of [...]

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Soused

By Nick Hranilovich Resend, receive receipts doubt debits deny demise Nontronics and signals Crying out to a golden star Golden Star sounds like a coffee company Crying over the death of the phrase Golden Star Breakneck speed to gaseous Summer homes Rich kids with mercury-rubdowns and Daddy hooks in his hat, beer in the cooler, [...]

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black and white

By Ross Johnson I sit for Leyburn street and poor red brick I sit for unholy crucifixes carved in shoepolish I sit for hours because the cigarette went out while dregs drink dregs of bitter pint and life staving off the looking glass that spies bar oak and coffin I sit for housewives etched in [...]

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Laboratory and Omelet

By Harry Calhoun We make it every day, the egg and the experiment, the wine that doesn’t quite mix with the meal the way it’s supposed to. We read about it in a language that doesn’t fit the recipe. Life carries us like carrion or hospital patients into kitchens not our own. Every day is [...]

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Be Mine

By Mather Schneider When I first started sending out poems to magazines it was 1992 and if there were internet publications I didn’t know about them. I didn’t have a computer and had never been on the net. When submitting my poems I didn’t understand the whole SASE theory. I couldn’t figure out how you [...]

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mean / while

By William Merricle one handful of keep your distance, swallowed bees, nightclamps, little dreams, death row insoles, fun, fun, fun, turn, turn, turn, turtles all the way, tail of the universe, twist of perfection, bag of cold, fallow year, memory graft, digital infestation, hairstyles, grocery aisles, meanwhile, slurp, rend asunder, the boo-hoo skies, joint began [...]

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Bon Voyage

By Jay Passer puppet heads, cellular phones, bathtub legs, serenades who ran with the last of the money and who got shot you can punch in the numbers like a chemist or pilot a thousand Enola Gays gain light speed till the body ejects the brain you’ll never know for certain amidst a torturous galaxy [...]

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A Fresh Start

By Michael Grover Trauma from past lives Keeps us down in this one Stuff we bury & don’t think about Total blackout I’ve always blacked out in trauma Ever since I was a kid For that reason I have a Selective memory Tell america my inheritance Was only anxiety only anxiety We have built ourselves [...]

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