Poetry

Goldenrod

By Rebecca Givens Rolland
These days, I lean into darkness: ten times / over, I sing madrigals, sign cards. Sweet times /   / find their vowels in birds’ wings, radial syntax / of carpus, metacarpus,...

Moose Factory – d-dechs tags

By Adam Davidson-Harden
you traced yourself in vivid green and blue / after southern cousins, streets, brick / made alive with tags,  / quiet illuminators of the  / bleaker corners / trash bins, rusted /...

blason de la poule

By David Alexander
her feet are two twig fingers grasping at grass / her legs support an ark that tips like a / theme park ride, frequently stuck /   / her feathers are packed...

I Used to Be White

By listen chen
like a white sail /   / luffing in the white wind /

Awake

By Caleb Harrison
1.    awake is how we leave /       our other selves /       asleep /   / 2.    a ship cleaves sea /       a wake...

Photographing Bushkill Creek

By Jean Free
I’m sitting on the bank where you once stood / to photograph the creek the way you would / have on a day like this. You’d go knee-deep / to get a...

Erratics

By Cathy Bryant
The hills and stones are drunker than us. / Someone spilled a thousand rolls of green velvet / at a party of rocks. We walk over them / and through the glissading...

sleeping

By Kayla Krut
you know they love you if they take your picture while you’re sleeping. / i take pictures because i feel like i understand things that way / if i feel i understand...

mandolin

By Jesse Matas
turn me to play tire tracked steel wound funiculars filamented clandestine caravans bordering optic filters and a mandolin so held, so structuralized and redistributed as Saracen crescents as buttery Actias Luna (saturnidae)...