They made their home within a concrete sanctuary Some adapted appendages and other parts of human skin To better interface with their watery brethren One small girl I noticed had a dorsal fin Another filtered nourishment from a swim These people were the most unusual I have seen And yet to them, their world seemed […]

Read More Poetry: “Aquarium” by S. Rogers Ellis

Keep a few LPs on a shelf in a closet your favorite groups your favorite teenage afternoons with headphones singing so everyone in the house but you can hear. Save them so you can once in a while slip one for its jacket palm hold it by the edges like a child’s face blow the […]

Read More Poetry: “Keep a Few LPs” by John Walser

As light as lonely swaying emptiness, buoying weightlessness all chantlike afloat, the one and only apt appendage, That floats in principle taut right above all the depressed states, revelling in movement for movement’s sake, One’s wildest thoughts and tight-locked bottled up emotions all slide across and dock like dulcet song in glorious homecoming Quite like […]

Read More Poetry: “Reckon Rigorously All!” by Saloni Kaul

The face in the cloud speaks to me. “I see you down there, grinding away. I prefer floating. I prefer drenching.” O Spring, the imagination runs wild! A fine line separates fancy and insanity, like I don’t know. Now it fucking rains. The face in the cloud, darker now, chides me for forgetting my umbrella. […]

Read More Poetry: “Blue-Sky Thinking” by Salvatore Difalco

I sprinkle a plastic cup of salt on the icy, ribboned, lacey, slippery sidewalk. Cold prickles my face. Ice crackles, like laughter and small talk at a gathering party. Then, the sun appears. Pink salt crystals, dissolve, invisible, except on the toe of my left boot—a white streak over the scuffed brown leather. I want […]

Read More Poetry: “Crackle” by Joshua Wetjen