Category: Poetry

Issue 29 | Spring 2022

Inertia

By | Poetry

Where will we end up? Persistent hum of tires is our story, and eventually the color of each signpost has its meaning.

Issue 29 | Spring 2022

Long Beach Summer

By | Poetry

Before we’d been outside the islands of our shitty neighborhoods, we weren’t angry. Only when the sun beat down we dripped with sweat, revealed tanned chests in the backyard, and played the radio.

Issue 29 | Spring 2022

Self-Portrait as a Trout

By | Poetry

How often I have played the part of this poor fish skewered by a barbed hook it mistook for something benign

Issue 28 | Fall 2021

Three Card Spread

By | Poetry

As children, our cups were never full; we learned to build our own thrones out of sticks and mud from underneath the bent willow.

Issue 28 | Fall 2021

The Matrimonial

By | Poetry

An eagle seeks his nest after lifting up from the land with a groundhog having already fled from its body.

Issue 28 | Fall 2021

Restitution

By | Poetry

The berries remembered, though. And, how far away from them we had  to go to not live the captive life, our mere existence a sin.

Issue 28 | Fall 2021

Water and Light

By | Poetry

I don't go often to the church in the village. The tall, leaded-glass windows seem as cold as the stone spire above.

Issue 28 | Fall 2021

Vacío

By | Poetry

We taste transparent flames, the spices and fruits for which we have no names. Savor the bitterness of ausencia while we sever wrists.