Flowers pull from mouth, tongue to tulip, back of head thrust back: there is no empathy tool fashioned to rub a tell from your tummy. The peat shovel slides right down through your leathered arms held horizontal to your sunken standing. More peat cubes to burn stack by trucks fueled behind homes. A pink stick […]
Contributors 82
Ed Skoog: Whole Personal Melons
My dear, entire, and here hear my entreaty for your humble entrée true, already on display for abusers to test for aisle ripeness, for thunk, still to me undisputed your melonry whole and personal I wish preferred and tendered, tendres boutons, untitled. For I would be entitled to their pursuit, apertured perturbers, traffodil lunge, agitated […]
Sean Singer: Elvin Jones Jazz Machine
Elvin, a marvel in a vice, vying. Reveal each torsion in a vial of gold and hyposulphite. An iron shadow and a sterling dome. On the doorstep its lit fuse and wires. Brushed plantation crimson; torpid promenade. The saxophone yellows under the petrol metropolis— The piano like peeled peaches— The drums torture us with their […]
Matt Schumacher: Drinking Song
The Miraculous Alcoholics think Boozed-up snobs and yuppie fops Less festive party guests than cops. Cops, at least, shout and start, wave guns, Flail frantic at Bacchanalian antics. Such bourgeois duds, such punks Smug as fuck, could put them in a slump. Champagne be damned. Slammed Pabst Spiked by 151. Blurred vision forcefed Thunderbird Until […]
Zachary Pace: Pastoral
Observation is all we’re allowed aboveground, where interminable durations govern eruption—each dormant seed an eventual otherworldly gift intended to halt your burgeoning heart— particularly this bundle of violet orchids I’m holding in the audience, your performance of uncontainable viscera & poise—my organs pause when our eyes lock—a gesture laden with Possibility, which I’ve already diminished […]
Erika Meitner: Inconsequential Alchemy
It’s predictable summer again, the sun frosted and glaring like a cheap Home Depot light fixture when it actually shines on the garden center rife with landscaping plants that nobody loves but everyone buys as yard-filler: pachysandra, rhododendron, euonymus, groundcover along with festive pansies in black plastic six-packs that die by mid-July. There’s no substitute […]