My Frenemy, The Super Plus Tampon by Valerie Nies
Like a girl from high school with whom one shares an eating disorder and a zip code, we bonded out of necessity. Vanilla cheerleader transformed into wavy redhead. In only 1.5 hours. My period, prompt like a junior league tea time ritual. Dense scones soaking up pools of clotted cream. Chumming around, codependent. You only […]
A Stranger’s Favourite Song by Caitlin Mundy
I’m dancing to a song on the radio I’ve never heard before. It was requested by Jordan, for Lisa because it’s your favourite song to dance to. I’m wondering if she’s ever danced to mine. Or if she’s ever even heard it. Where she is right now. Is she dancing too? I know […]
Ode to the Color Grey by Lindsay Cortright
I call you Switzerland of hues, neither light nor dark. My thoughts are colored in every shade of you: stillness between storms in hurricane skies, early morning mist, the faint lines of tree branches, pencil-etched across the skyline from below, the spaces between blurred, lines of graphite smeared by my lover’s left hand. I love […]
The box/pinprick hole by Renee Butner
I a woman in a box Pinprick hole admits the light as I shift and fold in to myself Shadows drift around my body Dust motes dance before my eyes My outstretched fingers close off the beam of white momentarily and I hover in complete darkness I scratch and scrabble […]
Blender by Alex Z Salinas
As in dreams, as in life, in steaming black coffee The faces fade, the bodies fade, heat fades She critiqued Bolaño’s books saying they lean Toward self-destruction & she was right “Everything points to death,” she said And then I kissed her soft white neck I slept sleepless for a week straight […]
