Wandering Maiden | Chris Carrera

"The world wants our marrow / then to spew us into Gehenna. / That is all. / The world’s to-do list? / A nose ring in the snout of a pig being led to slaughter..."

Draw a Line | Susan Moon

"Instructions: Draw a line from each item on the left to its matching item on the right. There may be more than one match for each item..."

Joy | Samantha Fain

"a limbless thing, / a flushed pink tube / that bristles & grows / symmetrical, / that wiggles rings / around your heart / & drums around, / but dim. & in the rain / joy arrives—"

Flying Fox | Kristi Maxwell

The beautiful outlaw, a lipogram that does not use the letters in the subject’s name (in this case, the name of an endangered species) explores what happens when what is endangered is instead absent—gone.

Selected Poems | Alex Behr

"The body is the skin with the new spit across it... The pacifier: to shove something in a (child’s) mouth / and hope nothing will come out..."

Don’t Worry, Be Happy | Melanie Friedman

"too many notifications but waking up to an empty phone is vacuums / sucking butterflies I am the same thread flushed and forgotten by the space / I used to occupy..."