Your Freedom Country
By Emily May - Mar 27, 2017
October in Bangkok is hot and rainy. I stared out into the city from the back of a pink cab in gridlock, the windows streaked with my own breath. I’d arrived in the capital after a ten-hour bus ride, and I had twelve hours to kill as I waited for another bus to take me further south, to the beach where my friends awaited.
Read More >Cocaine Barbara Plays Whack-a-Mole with Her Heart
By Anaïs Duplan - Mar 24, 2017
Much to her surprise, Barbara in the city. Teaching some children about poetry. “What is there to know?” she says, poised on all fours on the desk at the front of the room, “What is there to know about Donne? You tell me.” Cocaine Barbara belching chicken bones all over the room. Everyone aces the class, ascends the ranks, becomes the lecturer at here-or-there. So, Barbara in her eighties, still in the city, living with Michael in some god-awful hole, making eyes at rats, licking and being licked.
Read More >CRUISE
By LA Warman - Mar 22, 2017
I. earlier i saw the first openly gay couple in weeks and if you ask me what ...
Read More >EMPIRE
By Richard Wehrenberg Jr. - Mar 20, 2017
Stop signs have proven
to cause incorrigible and abstract frustrations
enduring for hours & transferred
unconsciously to others
Energy continues long after it
The stars are dead their light still traveling
Read More >Two Poems
By Elaine Kahn - Mar 15, 2017
ROMANCE
I have heard it said
that love
turns people
soft
but I have
never been
more
brutal
Read More >DOLLAR TREE
By Jae Choi - Mar 13, 2017
american dollar store
california dollar store
super dollar store
only dollar store
un dollar store #1
mighty dollar store
Read More >Two Poems
By Jon-Michael Frank - Mar 10, 2017
I
there’s a crude bloom to the pear trees
I feel guilty about not being
a loud pee humming from the next stall
Read More >Don’t tell my mother if they kill me
By Angel Dominguez - Mar 8, 2017
Let her think they hid me in the void
Let her think I avoided hot lead
Let her think I avalanched east
Let her think I’ve become forest
Read More >Two from “Nature Poem”
By Tommy Pico - Mar 6, 2017
My singing teacher tells me find your center
Tornado fucking is a natural phenomenon
wherein you start on your stomach,
get flipped to the right side,
then he slides under you slams
Read More >Objects of Desire
By Stacey Tran - Mar 3, 2017
Animal eye contact. A bouncy ball in the palm of the hand. The crust of the earth is a place to pray ...
Read More >September
By Jos Charles - Mar 1, 2017
i. The rain distributes within the world This implies a grammar The map maker ...
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