John the Baptist as Whale by Josie Jocelyn Deane

There are two elements: The voice and the wilderness of Ocean — both thoroughly defined though one, more wholly — a conch, one blowhole Through which sound dismantles. The other a bellow, of no fathomable difference to the multitude of an ocean, teeming with...

Well-Tempered by Meghan Purvis

I am tremendous fun at dinner parties I say this as a joke but it’s true, I talk and hardly pause for breath, a ticking metronome of story punchline setup story and only rest a moment for laughter, a lull like a singer riding the backphrase still knowing when the...

For the Bear by Meghan Purvis

When they decided to kill the priest it was winter and they wanted it slow. They led him out barefoot to a steaming pot, and had us each take turns dipping an enormous ladle, black from other hands. The priest’s skin went soft white like wax, freezing too fast for...

raining somewhere else by Olga Demott-Bond

i sometimes think that everything that has ever happened to me is raining somewhere else. i sometimes think that the water has found a path through high trees, worked its way inside another room, so the damp next door is spreading, curving an unknown ceiling into a...

Shi by Zoe Konstantinou

-Savage! You read my poems and tore the pages. -… Mute Ir-rational a Chinese poem played on the speakers. Black dirty pots on the hob. No defense. He read the poems. It’s fine. Now he prepares filter coffee in a dirty machine. His friend pointed it out. It’s ok, I...

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