Safeway by Jessica Pollard

my life got ruined in the produce aisle all the wounds scabbed over with ritz cracker trash miracle except with more sunglasses at checkout my bra came off with a plastic fork in the cereal section yesterday got a passport stamp at the deli just real quick what a...

Winter Children by Natalie Crick

I’ve learned to read by the lamps of women reading on the south coast. I’ve peered into the darkness, no matter how cold. The living cradle the dead as a hand clasps water. The lake hangs like a pendulum under the black sky. It’s not the first time I’ve stood here,...

You Can’t Always Get What You Want by Claire Askew

At her feet was a footloose man  – The Rolling Stones It might be a good start if you knew what what you want was.  If you stopped trying to do the right thing: drinking whisky, buying black underwear, acquiring a vibrator that leaves you unable to come under your own...

Prototype by Aquinas

I’ve conjured a clone more successful and lively than me. I polish their bolts and bits – remedy their short circuits. how I wish my bones could shine like silver chrome! I dream of being as productive and managing, as talented, daring, motivated, and driven as the...

Incurable by Miki Byrne

If drawn on paper, an incurable condition would be an oval, bisected by a horizontal line. This line illustrates the continuum, a daily slog of managing: drugs, exercise, avoidance of triggers. Basic maintenance of each day’s regime. The loop is the cycle: the leap...

Insides by Aquinas

The lungs of who you are betray the bones of what you’ve become. I could carry you in my chest for as long as I hold my breath, but that would be too long. You laid in the grave of the person you wanted to find in me. Each morning— in the sleepy cemetery...

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