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Volume 32: 2021-2022

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POETRY

World of Your Brain

Sarah Scarcliff

"shell and sand of your skin / pollen of your / soul..."

Dirt-Streaked Hands

Kathleen Carter Kelley

"let us wonder / at what blooms beneath your palms...."

Farmhouse on a Dead-end Street

Sierra Napoleon

"and tapping / their fingers to the hum of the near-by galaxies..."

Stories My Father Tells me on the Way to School

Bianca McCarty

"From the plane they drop by twos..."

Giocoso and Cadenzas

Jenna Fuller

"Music never fading, But a mind ever changing..."

Air

Leigha Whitridge

"How wonderful it might be / to be a purifier..."

Gifts

Audrey Woodruff

"I extend my mother’s hands..."

Anytown, AL

Audrey Woodruff

"An outburst in a muggy silence..."

Time Together

Sarah Scarcliff

"Good people / making the home about them still..."

Pink Bow

Audrey Woodruff

"Was it tied in before / or after my first breath?"

Apollo

Joseph Arnold

"Salt of the womb. Writhing..."

Midway

Kaila Pouncy

"Made my stone bed, and crawled under the concrete..."

Berlin

Bianca McCarty

"Your mother was here when it came down..."

Horrors That Accompany The Hands

Zachary J. Domanski

"Cower before the Maul of Murder..."

Freedom

Jacob Camden

"to trust them as they write, destroy, caress..."

The River

Leigha Whitridge

"beneath vines draping muddy banks..."

Manhattan, 28 June 2019

Joseph Arnold

"The view tipped forward / Toward gray shores..."

in my head, i swing with the birds of paradise

Kaila Pouncy

"my attention is resting in a bed that my earth built for me..."

Ode to the Unknown

Sondra Elizabeth Bowen

"I know others do not see her..."

Mama Called It Attic Shopping

Leigha Whitridge

"As the days shrank and  my limbs stretched..."

Who the hell put a quiz in my Oort Cloud?

Sierra Napoleon

"The tether tugged at his suit..."

Dogmatic Rings

Zachary J. Domanski

"Under the aimless observation / Of the witless Watcher..."

The Rapist’s Manifesto

Bianca McCarty

"Liquify that frozen terror..."

Schadenfreude

Audrey Woodruff

"His legs are ate up with gout. / I grin to myself. "

Ophelia

Leigha Whitridge

"almost close enough..."

once upon a time, we lived.

Kathleen Carter Kelley

"I’ve never much been one for sequels..."