AUG 2022 / ISSUE 17

MANDARINS

by Shin Yu Pai

history often erases those who were secondary to the white narrative which explains why the gun battery at the remote Washington harbor defense outpost is named after a long dead Texas Ranger…

FOLK

by Rosie Brand

My work spins a cognitive web of interdimensional poetics. It is a practice of sculptural world building that stems out of my healing process after the death of my mother in 2019…

UMBILICAL

by Amra Brooks

After eighteen hours, I went home alone and left my husband and son in the hospital. One of us needed to sleep. It was now light out and I howled as I drove. The animal part came up guttural…

BREAKING NEWS

by Amanda Johnston

did you hear? mama’s numbers hit
and the lights stayed on another day
the cold stayed away another night
peaches’ baby slid into today…

THE LEDGE

by Deborah Kay Kelly

There is much yelling, a president’s pursed beak of a chicken and a twist of tin ribbon in a critical region of brain. He calls for the messianic aestheticians, for a world exfoliated, depilated...

Hermanas

by Lindsay Quintanilla

The scent of dusty chicken feathers, roasted coffee beans and stale breath always reminded her of bitter goodbyes. Carina De León immediately recognized the smell as she stepped inside…