NYKOLIA – PW Covington
NYKOLIA He wrote of the war The way that A poet’s daughter Writes of suicide ‘The shells are still falling As I’m cooking breakfast.’ He posted ‘These are the last of the eggs.’ ‘I haven’t seen my cat in 6 days.’ Then nothing 3 weeks now And I’m against Every bomb dropped Every rifle fired […]
Extract From A Plane Crash Survivor’s Diary – Jo Matsaeff
Extract From A Plane Crash Survivor’s Diary We must have crashed into a forest. It’s a lovely place if you don’t pay attention to the clothes hanging from the smashed windows. If you don’t pay attention to the human shapes hanging from the trees. Yes, it is a plane crash; but there are still bushes, […]
In Defense Of The Boy Who Made Heartbreak Hurt Like A Hangover – Kait Quinn
In Defense Of The Boy Who Made Heartbreak Hurt Like A Hangover You were a dive bar. Shot of gin I told the bartender to keep pouring You tasted like cherry but went down like whiskey. Called me a slut before cheating on me with five other girls. Said I made you do it, funneled […]
aphelion & the summer road trip we were never took – Melissa Calderon-Rougié
aphelion & the summer road trip we were never took staring up through the windshield aphelion never looked so close the sky an eruption of blue clear and inviting where once I clutched whispered promises, my concave chest blisters red below a fire sun along this highway trajectory ivory clouds float ahead to an unmapped […]
Ode on the Venice Skate Park – Jessalyn Maguire
Ode on the Venice Skate Park after John Keats From empty pools thou com’st, thy ancestors A labor of inventive, idle boyz. Thou shirtless theatre of practiced gestures, Bizarre creature abetting peacock ploys, Escapist honey bastion of old ways, Who now, tell me, are the new baddest dudes? Inheritors of the all day all night. […]
