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With Someone You Care About
By Lola Bosa
My boyfriend likes to undress me in a nonsexual way, or at least that’s how it feels.
Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning (Psalm 30:5)
The charlatan bilked them // Out of what they’d said was sacred. // The lion's teeth specialize in cutting meat.
midwife and pieces
By M. Frost
stumble // through snow // mounds // belly-deep // form // elemental // letters
living for a while
living for a while in a hospital // is living in the world of footsteps // and changing emotions.
Bang, Summer coming, and the colours, and Mark
By DS Maolalai
it's october. fireworks bang // like cracked knuckles.
In Situ
It was there all along: // a knot beneath the skin, // a stranger's tongue in darkness
Hypnotizing Chickens
One Saturday afternoon in the shoulder // season between calving and haying
let us cast lots, and can't we have a lesbian love story where no one dies?
I hate rich people, // my son says, spat // from the belly of the bus // that each day returns him // to dry land
Seeds of Pomegranate
Usually Rafael was called Rafa, but Hope shortened it further to Raf. Some of the other men who worked at the hotel would tease him when they heard this, but Rafael never mentioned it to her. He met her briefly while she worked the day shift during the summer time, when the sun would bleed through the windows and warm her pale face while she stood behind the front desk.