"after all that / we ended up with the right one / tilt back towards the sunrise / and when you sound out / the function / with your mouth / trace amounts of time / will vivify..."
"Provoked by the tense of the earlier and steadfast lines / Has she been towering over the containment for how it can / Look to be the amazement around the filtering of a cluster..."
Sam Leuenberger's fiction and poetry has appeared (or is forthcoming) in Cutbank, The Spectacle, The Collagist, Kallisto Gaia Press, After Happy Hour Review, Timber, and Glint.
Jesi Bender is an artist from Upstate New York whose first book, The Book the Last Word, was published in spring, 2019 from Whisk(e)y Tit. Her shorter work has appeared in Split Lip, Lunch Ticket, and The Rumpus, among others.
"Let’s play a quick game, class: / list everything new under the sun. / Think cloud-based collaboration. / Think even bigger. / Thankfully, the story can now be told / on a planetary scale..."