Two Poems by James Crews
On a hillside outside of Tokyo, / a man has built a glass booth / with a disconnected rotary phone / for calling lost relatives, / for speaking to the dead.
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Three Poems by Michael Castro
These poems originally appeared in the first three issues of River Styx. The River The river rises to unprecedented levels. Tree tops prick the surface. The water seeps under doors, over windows,swallows...
Flower Flower
O I could fill a cinema. Bent road of jade birds' loft bed rain ruining the mountain and my own little hooves beating a repeating question. In winter. Ordinary life....
Two Poems by Adam Edelman
Help Desk All is not lost, in my opinion.Something in the way of how anything can happen ends up meaning most anything doesn’t, and did you ever notice it never...
Four Poems by Alicia Rebecca Myers
January I am too much in my body.Mornings spent wishing for optical science and invisibility cloaks.I dream of being pregnant again, even as I sweat through next-stageluster.The iced-over lake makes...
Dog Star
In the ghost capsuleLaika the cosmonaut dogwas still alive.There really is no solace even in this 4th space I try to make.This poem is not the right door,the sort of...
In My Sister's House
When I walk up, Zeke-the-Dog is already in the car. They're taking him in. Gentlyput: helping him die. Gentlyput: killing him with less pain. On the radio,the Angels erase our...
Six Poems by Katy Chrisler
Rebreaking a Bone Before means chronology has logic;means outpaced prior-faced enmity -lacking of punch, drunkless. Dressed less. My prologue, I harken. Has teethmade of cartilage. No, bones. Side flesh. What husband? What has...
Three Poems by Becky Kennedy
After what had gone before was gone, it was afternoon,
Five Poems by Mark Neely
our babysitter hangs from her seatbelt in an overturned jeep / across the field a farmhouse glitters like a chandelier
From "Stock Pond"
I didn’t put your place (cafo – concentrated animalfeeding operation) on Counterglow.By now I guess the algo knows. I don’t know what I wanted to save – my embarrassment. To...
Two Poems by Daniel Ruiz
Loud Laughter It wafts out of the same demented hallway monsters march out of also: the vampire sings, laughter follows. A machine modified to present clear and present danger keeps...
A swan
a swan a swan a silver swan automaton articulates articulates a remove from time tells time itself mechanical fool proof at 2 pm in the provincial museum, the dial...
Six Poems by Mitchell Glazier
No Country
A poem by W.T. Joshua
Omagh
Jodi Johnson reflects on the tragic car bombing on its 25th anniversary.
Sestina on Segantini's "The Punishment of Lust"
A poem by Jodi Johnson.