I Am Fading Into My Own Untouchability

Ella Corder   It does feel good until it does not. You take a hairdryer to a frog until it’s pruned. You take forks to a yard until it’s plastic. A body the size of Kansas and you still don’t find the right place to touch it. Vented tents of breasts and you make...

When I’m Gone From You

Pat Tyrer   What will happen when we become you. Is it the end of mustard on pastrami when it hides from you behind the mayonnaise? Will the mate to your black sock continue to ride the shelf in the dryer. Will you wear your flannel shirt beyond donation and...

Bus Stop

Phoenix DeSimone   How do you do it? she asked me. Do what? Stay so happy when the world is crumbling around you? I took out my pack of smokes and a few quarters hit the ground. She reached out her bic, flicked it. A bus rolled by and splashed some water on the...

Park

Kit Isherwood   his mouth was like warm champagne    held me by his tongue and wouldn’t release me until I had released into him   the salted-sweetness he so craved    concealed   behind some bushes    the moon’s night a curtain to the sensitive act of...

Gernika

Ben Nardolilli   This might be it, the end of art and war as partners, where ekphrasis and violence part ways, only the frames of the photographer seem to work in the shadow of this canvas, here paint triumphs one last time and gives way, trying to depict the...

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slntstrwbrry find me a light and i will show you a million ways to amplify it   slntstrwbrry is a writer from the USA. They have appeared in wingless dreamer, misfit magazine, and ink sweat & tears. They enjoy guacamole, live music, and...