ghost ride the whip another house party hosted by whatsherface another lacklustre Saturday chauffeuring you around rooms of architecturally handsome faces but tonight I’m cloaked each word I utter is a haunting met with a second-sucking startle before being relegated to the conversation’s footnotes so I saunter between gossiping huddles like a watermark on the […]
Read more "Alex Scarborough ~ ghost ride the whip"John Hughes — to all the Neo Maxi Zoom Dweebies It’s February 18, 2025, John Hughes’s birthday. Altered Images is singing in my head. The fact that he’s dead doesn’t stop me from celebrating the birth of this man, the man who understood us: The Xers, Gen X, latchkey kids. He was the Nicholas Ray […]
Read more "Nancy Byrne Iannucci ~ JOHN HUGHES"Over-Steeped Morning calm spills down my throat, an antidote to replace jitters of coffee, aspartame of Diet Coke. Keep me awake on this morning, every morning, when sleep pulls like a lover from an unmade bed, and let me continue work that feels more important than me while disease leaks life from my neighbors and missiles fall around […]
Read more "Over-Steeped ~ Elizabeth Birch"Down 45/50 down, depending on builder quotes. jesus: I could live for two years if I’m careful and have a divorce. but instead it’s two bedrooms in a square by the courts and disused market buildings all listed and tumbling down. and we can afford it and still go on holidays two times a year […]
Read more "5 poems by DS Maolalai"PRETENDING TO WORK This Thursday I will pretend to work I will take some very real calls And answer some very real emails From some very real people And then I will gaze with some peppermint tea Listening to the sound of a small fridge And refresh the inbox And wonder what notes are on […]
Read more "Pretending to Work ~ Paola Magnusson de Filippi"thank you note to mother planet goddess gaia thank you for having us here thanks for having me here on your place birthing our asses on your beautiful planet thanks thank you for all you do for us and more please tell the stars I’m sorry sorry for the pollution and confusions the stupids, the […]
Read more "5 poems by AVA BIRD"Miscommunication It was evident by how voraciously she unbuttoned my button and unzipped my zipper that she had not understood what I had meant when I had said I only wanted a Platonic relationship. ~~~ Intimidation You don’t soon forget when you walk into your boss’s office and spot a shrunken head resting on his […]
Read more "4 poems by Wolfgang Wright"A Warning Label for Life Drowsy amid dawn, I brush my teeth and shower with city-issued disinfection byproducts that may cause cancer. Abluted in the chromium-6, lead, and other contaminants, I call myself clean. Soft scrambled eggs go down my gullet with their heavy metals, toasted and buttered carcinogens soon follow. Water sends a vitamin […]
Read more "A WARNING LABEL FOR LIFE ~ BOB MCNEIL"Susan Melinda Morée is grateful to have received a grant from New Mexico Writers to research the journey of Asha, a Mexican gray wolf who pushed past the boundary set for the endangered species. Wolf + Mythologies is the result of that research. Below you will find some excerpts from Wolf + Mythologies. You can […]
Read more "SCENES FROM WOLF+MYTHOLOGIES BY SUSAN MELINDA MORÉE"Drinking Coffee Alone People I have loved keep dying. They lull you into a sense of reassuring permanence then stop showing up, chatting, breathing, being. I accept no blame, never said anything overly offensive and intend to be here indefinitely. But it’s not easy to replace the quitters. Other people already have their quota of […]
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