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Running for the Bus, with Snails by Brittany Thomas
‘Because the world is so astonishing, the snails — to take just one of the many possible examples — are so short, and it is all too great...
Oct 8, 20231 min read


I, a Piper by Landon Wittmer
An indefinite number of rats populate the world. All estimates fall in the billions, but this does not include the number of mice,...
Oct 1, 20232 min read


Three types of rocks by Devaki Devay
Igneous: The way I began to love you was igneous, something molten bubbling over the cracks, into the air of me. I held it in my palms...
Sep 24, 20231 min read


Bitter Birds by Bucket Siler
Lock your bicycle in the alleyway where the restaurants empty their trash. Food truck exhaust mixed with garbage smell and the pavement...
Sep 17, 20233 min read


I'm the Squid by Angela Townsend
I have a friend who never uses the word “creatures.” I’m not sure I’ve heard him say “living things.” If he is speaking of humans,...
Sep 10, 20234 min read


The Rent in the Galaxy by Travis Flatt
When Earth wakes up thirsty and reaches for the nightstand and can't find the glass she always sets out the night before, she'll think,...
Sep 3, 20231 min read


Signals by Mikki Aronoff
The teacup rattles on its saucer as it crosses the space between wife and husband. The wife raises her eyebrows for a refill, then...
Aug 27, 20232 min read


Grosseries by Julius Olofsson
With a shopping basket in his hand, he stands there. He took the bus. Others around him came riding upon genetically engineered Great...
Aug 20, 20234 min read


Wool garden by Marisca Pichette
Fountains—found-tains—found, fond, An ain is what? Plain, pain, air lodged in your nose. Breath like sun-bleached spring, winter hangs on...
Aug 16, 20231 min read


Our Years of Golden Horses by Lynn Mundell
When one of them was 8 and the other 9, they drew horses on the printer paper one of the dads brought home from his office. Green horses,...
Jul 9, 20232 min read


these aerial views— by Abbie Doll
mountain ranges reduced to anthill craters, sprawling suburbs compressed to crop circle parking lots everything shrinks (up here) every...
Jun 28, 20231 min read


Dear Bottlefly by Eric Fisher Stone
Your wings murmur hymns that the dead return to life, your body’s gleaming bean robbing the rabbit’s eye. Your feet’s rancid needles rub...
Jun 21, 20231 min read


The Garden Stirs by Devon Neal
In dark December, stiff January, it’s always a brisk walk to the car to start and turn the heat on, or the weekend grocery trips, the...
Jun 14, 20231 min read


Two Poems by Erika Seshadri
MURMURATION the firmament welcomes flight in dim light of fading day, when starlings return to roost staccato chirps give way to...
May 10, 20231 min read


on (fish) murder as one of the fine arts by Prema Arasu
the marine biologist is an expert fish assassin— icthyocide is an artform and he has learned from the masters. none but the rarest, most...
Apr 19, 20231 min read


Carnival by Laura Grace Weldon
after Danusha Laméris The game dupes us all at first. We play hard, scars fading faster than their stories, time’s twirl only a number. I...
Apr 12, 20231 min read


the disservice of swallowing by Isa Pineda
my ungrateful tongue, its surface area taste insults the decadence of your golden mango flesh to your richness, heaping mounds of bazaar...
Apr 5, 20231 min read


Along the Periphery by Hema Nataraju
You say you can’t bear to live with my parents anymore. I love them, but I choose you, so we move out of their warm basement and into an...
Apr 3, 20232 min read


Coping by Sarah Roth
After Hanif Abdurraqib An endless room with endless windows / and the view outside is just better out of some windows than others / at...
Mar 29, 20231 min read


A Baptism by Nathaniel Spain
Follow the irrigation ditch beyond the railway line and you come to a thicket of willow trees. Between them the hem of a chain-link fence...
Mar 26, 20234 min read
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