Category: Issue 1
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BETWEEN MEN by C. Dale Young
You never know you want to live until someone tells you that you will die. For four years, Leenck had worked from home processing accounts for an investment firm. Leenck was dying. Suffice it to say, he was painfully aware now that he was dying. He had already gone to the bank and withdrawn all…
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A POET FORGETS HIS LIBRARY by Cornelius Eady
For Jack Agueros Look at all those lovely books. What are all those books to me? Words are wriggle-fish in an endless sea. I over-hear them talking, Sometimes I think They’re talking about me.
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STRANGE GOSPELS by Cynthia Cruz
I was locked in the linen closet, lost In ruffles of gingham tatters and my sky Bleached hair. I wore the Paper crown. I wore the flimsy red Tiara. I let them Pin them wings on me. The palace, I say, is burning.
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THE ANGELS by Maria Hummel
They have not come for you. They will not blister the day with light and swords. The room remains a room, and not a portal. The syringes hold no messages, not even plain emptiness. The food trays, when you eat food, rattle if I move them, and, if left alone,
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DEAR SUBURB, by David Roderick
Some blunt hammering set me off, that and the teeth of a saw. I left behind my sweater, the remains of a sandwich, my camera, some paperweights, my lament. I left behind a few weak coals I’d blown alive.
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AUBADE IN PIECES by Victoria Lynne McCoy
Even as I deliver my body to the subway’s tenebrous mercy, I cannot un-know this: each time daylight invades our limbs, the sun marching its restless armies up the sheets, my love will put entire states between us
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MAP (7) by Ye Chun
7. Olympia, Washington The Pacific Ocean shovels coals in the distance. My drunk friends drop pebbles at me as I lie on the couch losing water. Be happy, be happy, be happy. I’m trying to see spring sprout, mountain that smells like green apple,
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MAP (5) by Ye Chun
5. Lhasa Seeds tier in a pomegranate. Sweat beads convex-mirror corners of a night. You pick up a piece of coal from roadside, wrap it in a blue and green checked handkerchief
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MAP (4) by Ye Chun
4. Shenzhen Streetlamps imitate stars. Stains on a hotel ceiling imitate mountains, boats and ruins. …either do great good or great evil, the journalist, 23, says. We walk
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MAP (3) by Ye Chun
3. Zhongzhou, Luoyang This area is between brown and purple. All the apartment buildings look the same. I need to lie down, call out your name to one of the black-barred
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MAP (1) by Ye Chun
1.Niujie, Beijing When the earth shakes, hunching grandma picks me up, cousin’s uneven leg shadow-puppets the window. The sky lowers like father’s raincoat till the old lady carried out by her son
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FOR BLOCKED AFFECTIONS by Sarah Johnson
A cold flux of the humors can produce heaviness in the tissue, which leads to a blocked affection. The resulting fluids pool in the feet, causing sluggishness. The effect of spirits and devils on this disorder cannot be overlooked. Their natures are various, and their motives obscure. I had a spirit who gave me good…