◊ Is the newness of unused pillows wrapped in plastic symbol for a good future, are they hopeful instruments stacked like unwanted days, weeks, years pass, increasingly there’s no room for us to stay because the fantasy of what’s to come is more important than us being together in the present I want to kill […]
What A Baboon Can Do
It was the smell that scattered them. That stink of strange, new bodies—so thick you could hardly remember what the air before had smelled like. They ran for the trees, climbed up and hung close to the branches. Once they were up there, they couldn’t sit still. Silence would kill them. Stillness signaled the end. […]
Windows on the Natural World
This is a framing device The heart, nature A gif of restraint Only the implication of desire can be conveyed through my motionless hand over my motionless heart Hanging in there the all kitten depiction of cultural revolution pictured in the restaurant of my youth a glass and brass table flipped The wet fog, the […]
Night Fun
The lake did not begin easily. For a foot it was sand and then five it was rocks and then after, it became sand again. This was the nearest beach. I was pulling off my bodysuit. On the hanger it had been crisp as a soap opera hospital. Yet when I’d pulled it on its […]
Raat ki Raani
Sometimes I live in a highland valley
in a town so tiny the power goes out
at the first strike of lightning
I was watching videos
of Japanese people cooking tiny things
Editor’s Note
Lately, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about change. Social. Organizational. Political, obviously. In 2008, we had Aaron Sinift’s Glitter Obama as our cover image. There was a sense of hope for positive change. Depending on your position on the political spectrum, you can argue the effectiveness of changes Obama implemented: hopes fulfilled (Affordable Care […]
jars
decided to store it in half-pint wide-mouth jars in the corner of the garage
LOVE JINGLES by Iris Cushing
1. To the tune of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” Hawé* Chakra Chautauqua Clan, Thank you for using Sacajawea’s Sap® to reveal the colors of your indigenous Chakra wheel. This Chautauqua Wisdom Formula is what our higher nature uses to distill Spiritflow® from the heirloom energy in our body’s earthroots, and to weave the matrix of […]
LATE ARCADE
a really cool excerpt
MONTELL JORDAN CAME TO THE FATBURGER DRIVE-THRU
Montell Jordan came to the Fatburger drive-thru as I was clocking out so I went outside to get his autograph for one of my nieces back East who thought he was soooooo fine he was in a black Suburban with 50-11 dudes & was really cool about it & didn’t try to hit on me […]
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