Poetry

[sic]

By Taryn Hubbard
sic is an extremely simple irc client. Don’t take this personally. It consists of less than 250 / lines of code. It’s nothing shut eye won’t wipe. It is the little brother...

[07]

By Jonathan Ball
It is all a dream. [28] /   / An angel arrives. [49] /   / Reinforcements penetrate. [38] /   / They are defeated by a virus. [12] /   /...

[02]

By Jonathan Ball
The book that you read, seeking something. [60] /   / The book that you write, to discover. [52] /   / The book for which they burn you. [35] /  ...
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– 35th parallel –

By Doyali Farah Islam
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Tornado Chaser

By Roxanna Bennett
My son scans the sky for supercell storms / the way I once watched ladders of light for signs / of the Rapture. He waits for squall lines to form, / cumulonimbus...

Greg: Corps of Engineers, Afghanistan

By Keith Inman
It was a mean / while, and fuckin’ warm, /   / as we swarmed / a pact-racket of battle-hungry / rag-tag, mis-fits /   / when it all kettles / into...

Jazz

By Peter Taylor
when is it day when / is it day when / is it day / when / is it / day /   / ADAMS, Richard, 57, male; sev catatonic st /...

Your Parka Trimmed in Fur

By Julie Cameron Gray
We are surrounded by milky coffee / steaming out of cups on white saucers. / A bit of bread, blackberry jam. / Gloves float by the café window, carried / off by...

Crossing the High Level Bridge

By Suzannah Showler
A seagull jumps off into a wind that cracks it open over the nestled knot / of some inner-bird hinge that moves like the ugly joisting of a jaw, /   /...