Twelve Mountains Meesha Goldberg The 1st mountain belongs to old men & their every ambition, every addiction, every cast seed spent, every nail hammered, every bone a splintered kindling for the pyre The 2nd mountain belongs to grandmothers eroded by demand, wet with every grief, gone rogue & rugged, bent backed & slack-wombed, […]
Two Poems Adrienne Oliver Acknowledgments. This room is bare. This room is bare and we are alone in it. This room is bare, and we are alone in it, invisible stars in the blankness. // An announcer stands enter, holding a blank rectangular card. As they speak, lights dim to a spot directly […]
Three Poems Kinsey Cantrell how to reject pathology as season: without rejecting pathology as a whole? still appealing dissolution, body a serial / of malfunctioning parts. machine isn’t right either. i lapse clinical, two laxatives, clutch thighs for context. river cleaves, i spindle, wracked with or by / the gray of the day […]
be*longing Samia Saliba “A young Turkish man asks a question about writing: “When you start writing because it hurts so much, do you only write about racism?” I try to tell him, you don’t write about racism, you write about life. It is life you must write about. It is life you must insist […]
Smelt, dysphonic Maxwell Rabb of all the foam that’s left my body acid molds in junk engines today, i am lifting small strokes— oilbirds with guttural voices biorhythmic blast furnace curtailed by the shallow satin threads this cave laughs— and shovels words denatured today, i sell god’s high pitched gestures disguised in dissolving […]
Letter from the Editor Dear Reader, In the middle of a strange summer, New York is submerged in the suffocating haze of Canadian wildfires. The sky is a smoky, unsettling yellow. Pride came and went, with its exuberant, radical core and its corporate floats. We are in uncharted waters with familiar monsters. It […]
Table of Contents LETTER FROM THE EDITOR POETRY Maxwell Rabb, Smelt, dysphonic Dana Tenille Weekes, whose mountain am i climbing? Samia Saliba, be*longing Sihle Ntuli, The Etymology of ‘Thanda / Thando’ Meesha Goldberg, Twelve Mountains Adrienne Oliver, Two Poems Kinsey Cantrell, Three Poems Ilias Tsagas, because of Giovannai Rosa, ‘I work just 2 hours […]
