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..."

Selected Poems | Victoria Iacchetta

"We’re stuck in time, / rotting feet with mistakes to / carry. Tongues twist beyond / repair, and our mouths are / held hostage..."

Selected Poems | Cameron Morse

"The only way I can / get his attention is by ripping out / the translucent, turquoise piece of rubber that squeaks in his mouth / in lieu of conversation..."

Selected Poems | Jennifer MacBain-Stephens

"your outer barbs / the finest and most precious : / the soft palate needs to lift to make sound but sometimes we are silenced in the mud / Diopside stimulates new cycles of growth..."

Disowned Light | Miranda Sun

"Sister / to a knife, but the moon cuts / water and ships and when she feels like it, / the sky. The knife cuts the red / from apples and unrunning lambs and once, / my father’s thumb..."

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..."