The dwarf palm curves up and out from the soil behind the shoulder-high wall the way the coyote […]
TQ23 Poetry Prize
Justin and I stole my boyfriend’s Ford wagon for its beach pass sticker and drove out to […]
Mercy by Katharine Whitcomb
Golden Shovel after Emily Dickinson The body is on its knees apparently gardening is something like prayer as […]
The Garden by Steve McDonald
Agnus Dei, Samuel Barber, 1967 Instrument of the body, breath, larynx—the Rotterdam Symphony Chorus, 2015, lifts me out […]
Lamb of God X: After a Next Beheading by Jed ...
That post-electro-shock therapy lookon my grandmother’s face. Her mornings in the yellow world we called them. Cheekbones a […]
PORTRAIT MODE by Christopher Salerno
Funny, I thought Effigee would be a woman, her story stretched out soft coal and sorry before me, […]
GIVEN NAME: Effigee Sampson by Naima Yael Tokunow
You were misnamed Auguster, a boy’s name some would say, and your mother called Amy instead of Annie […]
GIVEN NAME: Listerine Woods by Naima Yael Tokunow
of the Woods I am in a dark soft hole. My mother put me here. I […]
A Brief History by Erin Carlyle
hey you don’t be fooled by the banana of my skin I’m […]
ONE OF THE GOOD ONES by Lyn Li Che
Women turn into lakes all the time. I rely on the old tropes: one hand outstretched,the other clawed […]
So He Thought by Rachel Abramowitz
your hands moved through me like water yet here I am […]
PREY by Lyn Li Che
Rachel Abramowitz’s poems and reviews have appeared in The Threepenny Review, American Poetry Review, Tin House Online, Seneca […]