DEEP DISCOUNT BY GENE TWARONITE
What is the price I can’t resist?
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AT JERRY’S BY PERRY BELLOS
last Wednesday we flung
onto the table bloodied carcasses
of enemies, we could not kill
DIAMOND DEADFALL BY HILARY LEATHEM
One day there will be
No blood in diamonds,
No tears in it at all.
THE EXILE’S EQUINOX BY DAVID ANTHONY SAM
The birds deny his doubts
and build nests
to his illusion.
His stillness questions itself
in the waves of the river.
BEASTS BREATHE BESIDE ME BY STEPHANIE MOORE
A bruising omen beckons
The leaves have fallen from the trees
The colors seep into the soil
PANTOUM: THEN TO NOW BY ARNOLD JOHNSTON
In cryptic images from alchemy
Jung saw a bridge from then to now,
A rainbow span, not the epitome
Of crackpot science and arcane knowhow.
Colossus in the Sky By Kasy Long
Giants exist, but they’re terrified of humans— just like humans are terrified by the small spiders in sidewalk cracks. Each booming step in the clouds is a frantic gesture; giants see shadows before we see the setting of the...
Read MoreIn The News With Justin Woo: Peter Liang
It isn’t often that I see my people, East Asian / Chinese people, assembled in political protest. Even in New York, there are only so many of us. Very often, I’m one of the few APIA (Asian / Pacific Islander American) people there. It’s a lonely feeling. (This isn’t to say that we don’t have a rich history of resistance; but in many struggles today, we are a small group mixed into much larger groups of white, black, and brown faces).
Read MoreFEELING THE HEAT BY GENE TWARONITE
On the far shore of Lake McDonald
their black stubble rises from the ridges
in stark reproof of childish notions of
wilderness where trees never burn and die
WHO WE BECAME BY JENNIFER EVANS
The mean boy who was selfish, and spiteful, and only ever cared about himself.
Read MoreRELIEF BY SUSAN MORRIS
You
are
beside me.
I know that I am fine.
GATHER BY SAMANTHA MALAY
Dust will gather beneath our porch
but we’ll be back next summer
to look at the path
where the barbwire sags
and the field meets the fence.
