POETRY – Thin Air Magazine

3 Poems by Ashley Kunsa

July 26, 2017

Standing in the Garden of Myself Where My Lover Misplaced a Rusting Trowel sweet nectar of firebush plumbing the fraudulent ____________________________________this argument from broken deities __________________does it matter? ________________________as light unspools across the thorax of _________________________________________inevitability___________________wading _____course you don’t know me _________________________________________________in this winter-colored dress, my wine-streaked cheeks, their hasty bloom _____________________a zebra longwing … More 3 Poems by Ashley Kunsa

RW, #67: Three Years Later, by Orion Redgrave

January 3, 2017

“there is no shape he wants to occupy more than his own, the shape he once held…” … More RW, #67: Three Years Later, by Orion Redgrave

3 Poems by John Findura

November 7, 2016

YOU HAVE ALREADY BEEN BURIED AND I DID NOT KNOW YOU WERE DEAD I don’t remember if we had been playing cards but once we sat at your parents’ kitchen table and sometime during that night you told me about your sister in the Florida hospital none of us knew you had a sister We … More 3 Poems by John Findura

Voyager 1 Meets God; by Justin Kanzler

October 6, 2016

After home I have seen light. And I have drifted unmoving through an emptiness That never saw me, small beneath spheres colossal casting shadows infinitesimal in the lit wake of titans. I am here to watch and to understand, and here is never the same. I am out, alone, the first to find what has … More Voyager 1 Meets God; by Justin Kanzler

Tricky Wash; by Matthew Johnstone

September 2, 2016

People called coyotes will take you across, highways will have roses to stray the … More Tricky Wash; by Matthew Johnstone

I. Instructions for Finding a Detachable Set of Invisible Wings

September 30, 2015

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 … More I. Instructions for Finding a Detachable Set of Invisible Wings

Amateur Icarus

September 16, 2015

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 … More Amateur Icarus

Volunteer Opportunity

July 30, 2015

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 … More Volunteer Opportunity

Battery Life

July 11, 2015

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 … More Battery Life

FROM “1930-1963-1984”

August 31, 2014

BY GINGER KO American-born but always remembered: woman and not white when I put jade against my body it’s suffocating ***

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