Thin Air Magazine

“Verve” by Victoria Elizabeth Ruwi

Verve Touch is fingertips’ ken flutter: this skin. Sight is an altar, time altered: this verve.…
“Learn How to Wilt Before You Bloom” by John Maurer

Learn How to Wilt Before You Bloom The chain mail made of layers of crystal shards…
“One Day” by Andrew Mobbs

One Day I’ll take those piano lessons, let my fingers meet the keys magnetically as if…
“Rita Moreno, say” by Joseph Mills

Rita Moreno, say Certain words have begun eluding her. She may know the one she needs,…
“Regulus” by Jenny Bates

Regulus (for Cecil) When in the heights, Heaven was not named, And earth beneath did not…
“Untitled #8” by Melissa Espinoza

Untitled #8 It happens most when you’re not around When bugs lazily bump into my windows…
“Butter Coffee” by Suzy Eynon

Butter Coffee Your ex-boyfriend’s now ex-wife posts an update to Facebook: she’s a Businesswoman now on…
“Illinoise Gothic” by Jemma Leigh Roe

Illinoise Gothic When you dissolved into the white expanse of silence, they kept telling me you…
“Gray Horse” by Glen Armstrong

Gray Horse I pay good money for a gray horse. It makes me feel like George…
“Drought Country, Six PM” by John Grey

Drought Country, Six PM The land’s anemic. And exhausted. It can’t work, can only extend from…