Thrust Fault | Vivian Ia
"our lot was labor / & liquor / made us feel bigger / than monstrosities, sooty / for the tazing / amoebic cancerous darlings / whispers from lineage to lineage, / clutching their pain..."
TNT | Donald Anderson
"The blast rattled my teeth and rib cage. It pushed on the air in my lungs. In the time it took for the concussed dust to settle, I worried I’d loosened the grid..."
Fall into the Rotted Mouth a Little Bit Lighter | E. Kristin Anderson
"When I’ve felt casualty creeping toward me I’ve never reached / for the gospel. Instead perhaps a fire or a dance. In this way / I know I am heretic— a dirtier flavor watching bones and papers..."
Image Formation | Sabrina Gaskill
Sabrina Gaskill lives in rural New Mexico. She makes experimental text-visual work and is also a teacher and psychotherapist.
How to Build a Box | Benjamin Kessler
"Amass your lumber. Use planks recovered from Great Cottonwood, which stood out near Haystack Rock for all those years and of which pieces can still be found around Furness, Wyoming..."
In the Beginning | Peg Alford Pursell
"Her father likes to tell the story of her beginning, as a blue baby. She has heard it two times before, a memorable magnitude when it comes to her taciturn father..."