Our Issues


The Moon, Reversed — Noah Mullinax

Sutures — Joshua Wetjen

A Cancer Patient Considers The Collapse Of The Gulf Stream — Christian Ward

N/mm2 = queer flesh — Sarah Amsler

I Dream of Fetal Pigs — Adriana Beltrano

Sonnet for my Optometrist — Ella Wisniewski

Questions about the Body — Lori D'Angelo

American Birth — Alyssa Sales

Learning to Say This as It Is — Rachel Roupp

White Angora — Danielle McMahon

Lumbar — Samuel E. Blackburn

Sixty, Single, and Doomed — John Ganshaw

I Am the Clay — Julie Esther Fisher


Tongues — Jenny Fothergill

Clutching — Kirsty Mac Dougall

How to Build Your Own — Amy Nash

Broken Haiku — Penehuro Williams

The lost art of keeping secrets — D A Angelo

Clemenceau’s Hands — Ava Mack

The Leaking — Treasa Nealon

profiled at breakfast — Elliot Boodhan

Chronically Ill Housekeeping — Makena Metz

Please don’t be Angry — Michelle Noel Terrebonne

Hell is a bowl of soup — Lilith Santos

limerence — Ria Di Peeples

September Children — Raven Lucas Pritchard-Smith


We Live with Things that Hurt Us All the Time — Joey Lew

Florida Man — Jessica Wills

The Self — Paul Hostovsky

Collectors — Daniel Choe

Roommates — Lauren Isaacs

Vista — Katy Luxem

a night we are not prey — McKenna Ashlyn

Ironing Lessons — Sarah Cummins Small

A pox of lips on all your houses — Ryan Arnold

Victory Poem — Tom Barlow

piss on the clock — Jess Smith

Viernes Para Recordar — Samantha Moe

Mouton-Douvernet — Ana Bradley


Buttons — Naila Buckner

Chickadees — Genevieve Jaser

At the Trampoline Park — Devon Neal

Hard Tomatoes — Paula Frew

Quietly, my Mind Sends up Shoots — Sara Collie

Preservation — Bruce Spang

Sea foam eternal — Ren Pike

Stranger — Dallas Athent

When I grow up I want to be a boy — Tara Dudhill

Endo- — Audrey Carroll

Growing Pains — Lo Beatty

Contents and All — Leanne Shirtliffe

Weeding the Path — Donald Zirilli

Buttload — Paul Hostovsky

Idioms and Phrases — Sivakami Velliangiri

Dementia Dispatch — Emdash AKA Emily Lu Gao

mother — Hannah Rigoglioso


Duplex (I sit very still when I wish not to be seen) — Isabelle Hutchinson

Strewn — Callie Miller

Buscarle la Quinta Pata al Gato — Armando Allan

JAN 8 // TEMPERATURE — Cassandra Traina

When Darkness Falls — Sergio Ortiz

Priest — Brennan DeFrisco

Innocent Question — Connor Donovan

Cold Copulars — William Doreski

Boreal — Veronica T. Gomelsky

Twice Married — Veronica Hosking

Return — Natalie Susak

wednesday in the allergy shot clinic — Molly Bolton

A verse on grief — Elizabeth Davis

Vigil — Alex M. Frankel

Selfless — Mallika Chennupaty

on the subject of spots — Irene Feleo

Trauma Workshop — Michelle Dennehy


Crows — Ali Nicolette

Birthright — Mollie Coles Tonn

Lukewarm — Gabriella Hirmani

Book VII — Siete Lin

Body Talk — Paris Jessie

Milk Drunk — Clare Havell-Shufflebotham

Richard Ringer — Eleanor Cantor

A Labour of Love — Bailey Schaan

I was — Chrys Anthemum

At 6pm the Table Overflows — Georgia Hendricks

Tis the season — Emma Burnett

Garden Prayer — Holly Humphreys

In an Aotearoa garden — Sara Litchfield

Pomegranate — Jenny Fothergill

Husbandry — Keri Withington

Eaten memory — Giovanni Pagliari


I Overshare — Elli Johnson

cherry tree — Lily Roberts

Field Notes — Gisele Parnall

for a Drive — Mia Autumn

Big Bottles, Big Rivers — Polina Cosgrave

Counter meals — Stephanie Powell

Afterward — Marc Ellen Hamel

Under Orange Lamps Near Pink Shutters — Steven Simon

in Her image — Chloe Bennett

Homebody — Josiane Smith

Elegy for an Unspoken Language — Natalie Susak

Alroight Dad — Lissa Anderson

“Me Chama ‘Logan’, Como O Wolverine” — Pierce Logan

Palms — Terrell Worrell

Lego — Catarina Gutierrez

When my parents — Sapphire Allard


/bahr/ — Fatima Hanan El Reda

Where Light and Darkness Meet — Katy Mahon

Tide, Mixed Metaphors — Kushal Poddar

in the dream i — Marie Crook

Simple Creatures — Imogen Hartland

Be Fruitful and Multiply — Alyssa Peterson

While Peeling an Orange I Remember My Father — Rebecca Villineau

Grown — Emily Anderson

Scallops Don’t Abandon their Shells — Ellie Jenkins

Requiem for an afterlife — Giovanni Pagliari

Quotidian (III) — Anda Marcu

Deep August — Jen Colclough

Instructions — Liz Swanson

Recalled To Life — Alexandria Maxwell

How I make my ikebana, in 3 Parts — Laura Cohen

Jetsam — Suze Terwisscha


Earthenware Glaze — Lee Eustace

Transformations — Borrego Escritor

Ingcambu (Xhosa) - n. Roots Kwanita Kepe

What Moves You? — Chi

Ink marksCaroline Banerjee

Weed — Naomi Park

Chewing Nostalgia — Cliff Turner

Letters From Your Other GranddaughterErica de Belen

Sitting Ducks — Anna McLellan

Tamil AngelsLeaf Klevjer

The root of the word “home”Chanlee Luu

QUARRY — Jack McDonagh

LegacyDionna Carter

Blue Shed SecretsLyndsie Conklin

Lost DNAsRebecca Smith

Almost — Beth Weg

These Roots — Anya

the queen of heartsQiqing Goh

Birds and Curtains Both — Samuel Glyn

Cartography — Amy Hollan

Longing Belonging — Anayis N. Der Hakopian

When You’re Gone — Ashley Walkowiak

It’s frustrating living in my head like this — Alyssa Walker

Left Behind — Simone Brown

There is a tree growing inside me — Abraham Alexander

Wild time — Peggy Bain

Chest Voice — Erin Russell

Roots — Cristina Otero

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