by Nathan Dennis | Apr 1, 2021
Erica Abbott (an Ekphrastic poem after N. Taylor Collins’ “Every Beginning”) i. There are approximately one million words in the English language. Of these, only two are needed to make one of the shortest complete sentences: I am. As in—I am in love with you....
by Nathan Dennis | Apr 1, 2021
Lauren Bender oh friend, I’m sure you would not have hesitated in the hallway like I did when a boy wanted to kiss me, because kissing after a while becomes like learning to walk, where you don’t think too much about it, there is simply a table or...
by Nathan Dennis | Apr 1, 2021
Jared Beloff It’s getting too long. You arch your back and look, out the window. I watch the lift of your ribs, the tilt of your hips your arms moving over your head like a flower unfolding. What is the angle of desire? Our bodies collide as shadows across the...
by Nathan Dennis | Apr 1, 2021
John Kaprielian Apricot dawn behind branches of bare oaks reaching up to caress the glowing disk of the winter sun. Black crows call to one another silhouettes beaks agape echoing down the cold streets. They know it’s trash day. A nature photographer and...
by Nathan Dennis | Apr 1, 2021
Colin Bancroft I kept the car running at the bus stop, Parked in the quarantined yellow paint square, So you could jump out and take a clean shot Of the row of terraced Georgian houses. Your face looked so intent as you stood there, Slightly shifting your feet...
by Nathan Dennis | Apr 1, 2021
Lynne Schmidt I listen to her breath as she sleeps curled against me. I crack apart my sternum so she can crawl inside the safety of my chest. Here, she rests soundly, body limp in trusting that there is no evil here no harm will come. I am a statue standing...
