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issue twenty-three :: May/June 2021

Stan Rogal :: Six poems Zeno Scott :: Three poems Sean L Corbin :: Five poems Tiana Lavrova Porter :: Three poems Jake Levine :: Four poems

Sean L Corbin :: Five poems

  THE LEPER ADDRESSES THE DEAD HORSE HE FOUND IN THE ROAD Dear sister, you should know that I understand the need to run,   to cut yourself open on barbs and write a goodbye note in blood on a splintered fence post,   to escape the tilled earth and a life that offers oats so seldomly.   I stand beside you, lay my hands upon your still-warm rib cage, and breathe in the steam lifting from your wet skin in the cool night air.   I am drawing you into my body, saturating my blood in your sweat.   There was something broken inside you long before the junkie crashed his truck into your flesh.   There was something worse than fractures. It was a hollow place in your stomach that no dried grass could fill.   I gather you in my veins and exhale with violence and hope that you find a current to drift lazily upon, that you find a row already plowed in which to rest your cracked hooves, that you are released back into the stars that gave birt...

Tiana Lavrova Porter :: Three poems

  Kosmoheterogony   Zanga quarkingly hemorrhagizes integral Kosmoheterogony memonic octaviously agentically disquieting lightning-riffic genealogists and their hot seashells hungarcious xenomorphic intelligentsia where the n-metric profiles of all intelligengories Galenize ecocentrizing your pungentations tactically hallucinogeneizing imaginophobia where caviaric paint non-space-antelopes ‘Prethoughtlarklings’-less unthinkable imagism’ Obituating skeletonized to Fraser highwaying PostPerfectivist Lugubria MetaNoetica-Dimensionless   protening post-Eternal Millennia To hypno-neurones, Astra Athenia of griga, lumbrous self-preservation, spiritual biologists: each tooth is an acromantic heart somingly manateeing thru acramanta corn puffs Affrodils pasteurized scapes of platelets tall-grassed by Luxembourgian sea petals Zoltan hot springs matroyoshka Delphi's of xhumatic belongingness! zamboni laciniated ‘mild’-kittenisms amnesiate while country sides ...

Zeno Scott :: Three poems

  auto-epistle I dressed in gossamer, (never spun yourself)... svelte and expansive (all at the same time)... existing in trinity of saturated persona yet, refracting thru stagnant mirror water only parting to placata our thrashing phantom limb... calculating in letter to see the carcass lessened by the mind attempting to swallow ethos like antidote & assimilate into some streamlined factory facility in the deep North... Dear, dear other-self just once get your ass out the water and swim like me i beg you, my nigga tune in, bc im comin thru the static... you may think me an enemy but we steady on the one we drumming wrongly on the one we growling in some belly on the one we floating into purgatory, breech on the one we dipping our two in the drinking gorge on the one we drowning on the one and we lash back on the one for the one. Backlog // Litany [transmutation of To Graham Foust on the Morning of His Fortieth Birthday] ...