Category: SUBMITTED WORKS
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I. Instructions for Finding a Detachable Set of Invisible Wings
I. Instructions for Finding a Detachable Set of Invisible Wings by Jen Karetnick Jen Karetnick is the author of three full-length books of poetry, two forthcoming, and four chapbooks of poetry. Her work has appeared in publications including Cimarron Review, december, North American Review, Poet’s Market 2013, Poets & Writers, Spillway, Submittable.com and Valparaiso Poetry […]
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Grayscale by Brian Burmeister
GRAYSCALE by Brian Burmeister A month after Mom passed, I went back to the house to pack up. In the corner of her closet, buried under a pile of blankets, was a box within a box. Inside were dozens of aged, black-and-white photos of my mother with a man I didn’t know. There were no […]
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Featured Artist: David Mrugala
Featured Artist: David Mrugala David Mrugala is a German architect living in Korea and working in an interdisciplinary environment with a particular interest in generative processes that not only aim for visual representations but also in responsive and interactive environments. “I launched the platform thedotisblack to explore generative drawings using the programming language Processing. The main focus […]
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Amateur Icarus by Marcus Goodyear
Amateur Icarus by Marcus Goodyear The moon is a glowing white ear, passing between gingerbread houses where wasps build their paper hexes. You are not here so it can’t be changing for us, this celestial cochlea and canal trained at the earth teaching me to listen when your phone rings and rings its robotic […]
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Volunteer Opportunity by Liz Drayer
Volunteer Opportunity by Liz Drayer We’re so thrilled you’ve offered to donate your time to our cause and know how you value the privilege to serve The police background check is just part of the process please visit your neighborhood sheriff who’ll make sure you’re felony free and that “sexual predator” isn’t a suffix attached to […]
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Battery Life by Daniel Schwartz
Battery Life by Daniel Schwartz “Much we have to fear, big-mouth beside me!” —Osip Mandelstam This could be any era, and by any I mean none of them swept under the loss that was our decade we remember the sky’s oldest quotation marks and the weeks of holding our breath to keep other people from […]
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Night Noise by Emma Moser
Night Noise by Emma Moser The pattern of your breathing changes, and that is how I know we both heard it, that we are both stirring from a different darkness than the one which embraced us, hours ago, as we embraced, fading into sleep, and that the velvet of conversing breaths has been violated by something […]
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Flight 2418 by Paul Bergstraesser
Flight 2418 By Paul Bergstraesser “Sir?” Was she talking to him? Who knew. He kept his eyes closed. “Sir.” Yeah, it was him. He took a deep breath and looked at the flight attendant. Her face was artificial-nice from corporate training but underneath he read sourness and disgust. Wasn’t the first time somebody had been repulsed by […]
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BIRD BY DESERT-LIGHT by Chelsea Biondolillo
BY CHELSEA BIONDOLILLO …It can’t store enough fuel to last the night and hoist it from its well of dreams to first light trembling on wet fuchsia, nor break the hard promise life always keeps. A lot of hummingbirds die in their sleep. —Diane Ackerman, Dark Night of the Hummingbird Creeping […]
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MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH TRAINS by Hsien Chong Tan
BY HSIEN CHONG TAN When I was a little girl in New York, I loved to ride the subway. Back then, I didn’t care about the grime or the roaches. And the weirdoes on board didn’t scare me. I liked how a bunch of buskers would just pop on the train, play a song, and […]
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