JUNE 2025 / ISSUE 46

Quarts Inverts

by Pascal Emmer

when they felled our bodies
with an ax of nine hundred edges
we became a petrified forest…

Tomar kotha bhogoban ke bole eshechi

by Mei Love

This is the revolution
when lovers are being bombed and separated
I wouldn’t want any colonizer to lay their hands on us….

Smiling Ferocious Thing

by Scott Nelson

My spikes under your skin. My fingers in your nerves. Your skin twitching and tightening against mine. Me cackling, grinning, growling into your ear, sighing...

Boy in Grass

by Joe Nasta

Can you hear yourself? On
our knoll overlooking the sea,
downy kneecaps. Perfume Genius…

Walking home

by Ed Wolf

I spent much of my time on the AIDS ward asking patients “What do you want? What do you need?” and so very often the answer was “I just want to go…

Under the Gameleira Tree

by Melina Oliveira

Cora flinched as Maria’s body melded with hers and felt her skin heat up when her friend inched even closer. It was like someone had ignited a fire inside…