Valerie Lundeen
the manifest evil
an evil that has happened too many damn times.
the face of
evil, repeatedly.
Tanya Thamkruphat
because my mother
tongue is lost
though more than likely
she is just out
of practice
Matthew J. Andrews
Our faces blanketed
by the darkness of the other’s. Did your house
have termites, the buzzing of their jaws
audible only in the quietest moments?
Angelica Mercado-Ford
How the tree still stood after years of solitude, its bulbous fruit, now consistent. Even it knew, the promise of sweetness would not fill an empty stomach.
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Andrea Lynn Koohi
I smile at the squares and the squares smile back, and it’s wonderful, they said, so it must be wonderful, this calm, this chasm, this being without being, this ultimate safety except for this
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