Tag: Issue 4

  • To My Mouth

    I hold onto the blue    edge of the couch a boat to its shore      our knees the waves   chess game on the table    floating from the day we said we’d finish        the moon full on close up   turning to look       like a mirror…

  • Diana K. Lee

    Diana Keren Lee has lived in Austin, New York, and Los Angeles. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Atlas Review, No Tokens, Painted Bride Quarterly, Prelude, and TINGE, among other journals. She has received fellowships from NYU and The MacDowell Colony.

  • Bedtime Story

    The boatyard is deserted; slips empty, save the few holding   boats wrapped in tarp & covered for winter. The last leaves cringing in piles or   swept into crevices will soon be dust. Father, you read,   stiltingly, with earnest difficulty, a child’s book to me, one line   at a time, describing this…

  • Emily Hockaday

    Emily Hockaday is author of three chapbooks: Ophelia: A Botanist’s Guide (Zoo Cake Press), What We Love and Will Not Give Up (Dancing Girl Press), and Starting a Life (Finishing Line Press). Her work has appeared in journals including the North American Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Newtown Literary, West Wind Review, and others. She is assistant editor of the science fiction magazines Analog Science…

  • Driving West Across Montana

    Thinking of your father, you stop at the casino in Lame Deer with the intention to play Blackjack.   From the parking lot, you watch a tall woman in cut-off denim shorts carry a toddler and a liter bottle of water   as she walks the side of the highway. The road is hot and…

  • Sandy Coomer

    Sandy Coomer is a poet, mixed media artist and endurance athlete. Her poetry has most recently been published or is forthcoming in POEM, Through the Gate, Euphemism, and Firefly Magazine, among others. She is the author of two poetry collections: Continuum (Finishing Line Press) and The Presence of Absence (2014 Janice Keck Literary Award Winner).…

  • Lavender

    wooden bells over the lavender. in the belfry alcove, the hum of ghost bees. abuela at her loom threads the last butterflies and indigo and hangs the festival chili peppers to dry.   her hands put me to bed with my sisters, Nina Bell and Maya Blue. we crescent each other’s bodies. the blood-purple of yarn tangling…

  • Steffi Lang

    Steffi Lang is a Latina-German American originally from the US-Mexico border, but now lives at the tip of a mountain in rural Appalachia. She has had work appear or forthcoming in Rust + Moth, Duende, and Haverthorn, among others.

  • The Memory of Water

      The salt you left behind, came back without. Aspirin-clouds. Lion-mouths. The flower. The root.   The bright cry of a christened head. Every ankle on earth. Every wellington boot.   What it’s like to make a rainbow. The moon.   What it’s like to fall out of the world. The moon.   Whiskey. River-weeds.…