Issue: 2026

i am just the shape i’m in all fragile limbs like tree fingers spread out like vines veins of energy vibrating i am light traveling like you’d never believe faster than your eyes can long for such weight i bring you down but I am flying overhead you re … Continue Reading

We lost control of our hands It started standing beside the drafting table when after years of friendship we first pressed our bodies together- While our mouths overpowered, played seek and devour, your T-square my protractor Our hands self-possessed, … Continue Reading

I am in a place called home under my arm In between my toes in the fire of my belly all over the tapestry of infinite cells of my eyes ability and that of my ears, my nose within and around this temple I call body I am in a place called home within the … Continue Reading

Lately, Veronica, the Swiss Brown cow, living in a small town in Austria, has captivated the internet. At first, scientists didn’t believe the owner, Witgar Wiegele, when he told them Veronica used a tool. The scientists investigated, witnessed the fea … Continue Reading

My grandfather rushes toward me as I squeeze the accordion of memory, my music filled with him and that swing he hung in the live oak tree, its rough canvas seat trained on the rolling swells of the steel-grey blue Pacific. I’m a pendulum, carving a lo … Continue Reading

In winter, when the trees have lost their leaves, you can see the prison from the community college. In the classrooms PowerPoints open like crocuses pushing up through the frozen ground, life experiences that the class have brought to barter for their … Continue Reading