Tag: Spring 2025

by Matt A. Hanson from a dimming bow the high bright clouds cumulate / shades of light orange descending / gray blues / mountains faded against sharp stone bare seafront foundations giving way to the dark green / dusk-lit forests  as still as the mast of a lone sailboat / white in the distance, surrounded … Continue reading Blue Voyage II →

by Ingrid Marie Jensen ‘Where’ve you been all my life?’  Jack Harris asks with a crooked smile, both incandescent and terrifying, that’s real charm along with eyes like Lake Michigan in a storm and an expensive suit.  he’s somebody special and don’t he know it!  song slides off slick vinyl, filling the air like a… Continue reading Billie, 1933 →

by Dahlia R. Trigger Warning: Alcoholism/Emotional Neglect Head pounding and bones aching beneath those bamboo sheets— just a sip would turn the throbbing into a dull ache,  but the shelf was right by your room.  By that hallway and that photo of me holding you on our stone steps  at 5 pounds and 2 ounces— … Continue reading Erysichthon →

by Colten Dom My hands turn to your back like tonight’s sky, gleaming  somewhere in an ancestral skull revealed by a retreating glacier— reconvened after a cloudy evening, squinting, kneading familiar structures, lines of gravity placing each stain as I find it. Freckles metastasize; stars pull and are themselves pulled. You touch my skin to… Continue reading Constellation →

by Ashley Hardin I’m sorry if you asked me a question and there was no reply. I was in the middle of listening  to my invasive thoughts about a peculiar conflict in front of me. One-third of my  grandparents’ circular ottoman was missing its  light brown leather top straight  down. This error had started to grow… Continue reading OCD →