Laurin Jefferson

Essay: Who Is Thinking on Her Legs (Manifesto)

Eleni Sikelianos

What color is your arrow? Mine is
green.

I’m the nail & you’re the nurse

Untitled

Jonathan Vanballenberghe

No! The realities keep off out rear,
And front ads in the shops
with irrupting,

The Associative Logic of Sex

Lacy L. Schutz

Hey!
Everybody knows
women’s lips
are a metaphor
for the labia. Some women

[After the light and the disarrayed feeling]

Lisa Lubasch

After the light and the disarrayed feeling
distraught, distracting, distracted, sought
What she did, she grew to create herself. In the end, it was like a forest. Only the wood-keep was gone.

[choose equal weights: berries and sugar]

D. A. Powell

choose equal weights: berries and sugar
a someone with influence. likely to judge
twelve hours of maceration: skim and boil

So Now You Know

Antler

So now you know places in the Universe exist
where a million years elapse
as a second passes
simultaneously for us
and vice versa.

Masters of the Cante Jondo

Peter Gizzi

They were beside me,
they sat in black taffeta, in veils, leather chaps,
felt hats, lace. “Closer” they call, “closer.”

Particulars of My Ordinary Life

Duane Esposito

I spend the day
lamenting & shaking,

quite sad, wasted
 for the entire human potential.

from Fort

Standard Schaefer

recited the Lord’s prayer and was hired
to the town to take the pledge
to the honky tonk to take exception

Black Horses in White Envelopes

Michael Burkard

1 Boxes of meaning.
20 Little books about fire.
3
Kim’s drawing:
“Mask” in bed–“I don’t want
dad to know I’m afraid of
anything.”