Tag: Issue 20

  • My Rapist at The Women’s March, 2017

    In this photograph, he cannot move–– his right hand will pierce the sky, suspended, open, it cannot touch nor grip nor hold. The sun tangles sap in his golden hair, makes a lamp of his pink cheek––lighting   … [Click here to purchase a copy of the magazine]

  • My Sister the Fire

    Anna came in hot / told Mom she was having / an abortion / Mom said wait / and didn’t she know Mom and Dad / had been trying / to have another baby / and no they couldn’t / could she? / do it / for her mother? / Anna crackled and heaved molten…

  • If You Get This Message

    Help. I can’t stop opening my phone. Someone has placed my life on a high shelf where I cannot reach it. Help me. I keep toying with time like it isn’t a tiger on fire. Worse, my interest in the rhyme between satiety and society makes me full. When it doesn’t, I try to remember…

  • The Widower

    Enjoy your life after I’m gone, Jon would tell Rachel. Go to the theater with rich widowers. Travel. Just promise me you won’t die first. But then her cancer returned, and she tried to prepare him, explaining where the passwords were filed, how to use Venmo and WAZE, telling him which of her widowed friends…

  • An Orgy in the Time of AIDS

      I was seventeen and a half when I took part in my first and only orgy. It was 1991. My family and I, originally from Belgium, lived in Rwanda, where my father worked as an epidemiologist mapping the HIV-AIDS pandemic. In November that year, Magic Johnson announced he was HIV-positive; a few weeks later,…

  • On Trusting

    I used to go to therapy once a week in a building full of therapists. I’d sardine into a tight elevator with other people going to see their therapists and we’d pardon ourselves quietly as we squeezed past each other into long hallways of locked doors. After my therapist opened her door with her half-smile—I…

  • Issue 20

    Issue 20

  • Lizzy 柯 (Ke) Polishan

    Lizzy 柯 (Ke) Polishan’s poems have recently appeared in or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast Journal, The Notre Dame Review, Prism International, Rhino, and Psaltery & Lyre, among others. The author of A Little Book of Blooms, she is a Pushcart-Prize nominee, and the recipient of the Eleanor B. North Poetry Award. Currently, she reads…

  • Lizzy 柯 (Ke) Polishan

    Lizzy 柯 (Ke) Polishan’s poems have recently appeared in or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast Journal, The Notre Dame Review, Prism International, Rhino, and Psaltery & Lyre, among others. The author of A Little Book of Blooms, she is a Pushcart-Prize nominee, and the recipient of the Eleanor B. North Poetry Award. Currently, she reads…