A Portfolio of Writing by Professional Nurses
Above: Diane Kraynak, R.N. A PORTFOLIO OF WRITING BY NURSES: Tina Carlson • KD Seluja • Sally Helmi • Christine Riley • Jane Slemon • Renata Bubadué • Diane Kraynak • Geraldine Gorman • Charles March III • Mary Ann Thomas • Sarah Comey Cluff • Brenda Beardsley • Shirley Stephenson • Nicole Aicher • […]
Cat
The cat drags herself into the room where my husband and I are talking about what’s to be done. When she drags herself away, my husband hangs his head and weeps. I hear his tears smacking the hardwood floor. “Oh, baby,” I say. He apologizes and I say he has nothing to apologize for which […]
from “AND YET”
from And Yet * Celibate that first year in the Midwest I felt relief from my libido and inherent male gaze launched outward. Leaking its covert imagination everywhere, especially on women, I felt relief from the (sexual) daimon constantly prowling along and inside me. This isn’t to say, though, that I felt any more civilized […]
Après le D&C and Isabelle Huppert
Après le D&C When I braved the wind for unnamed fruit, the sea and trees for shallow depths, the answer clung to my inner thighs as I turned to building an empire. I was sad to be done and glad to be scraped, and my books remained unopened. The first was on the art […]
Poems from “Desiderata” by Lizzy Mercier Descloux
Read the poems from the new book, listen to her first album, Press Color, in its entirety, read more about this poet and musician, and watch performances. MEAT. Night after day, stunning flesh of absolute nerves. Waxed and chilled, marrow and femur Desire for fulmination. Under the tongue capsules of […]
The Houseplant’s Life is a Nightmare
Under the mold creep and roach scuttles high in the crown molding corners cobwebs attest to life and living not mine and not my own The porch keeps its own counsel angrily hiving umbrella wasps and carpenter bees squeeze their fat abdomens into expressing shit in the crack between column and cornice Though […]
Unlooking Glass
i used to associate iran with death since we only went back for funerals. i thought the tinsel altars around the capital city were for some summertime festival, not memorials for dead young men. my mom never corrected me. instead, she bought me smarties, which for some reason was what my cousins called m&ms. […]
‘Trans World’ Is Redundant & homos stay homos
‘Trans World’ Is Redundant My boy accosts the Wendy’s worker who ma’am’d him through the intercom at the drive through. I’m a man! he says, you’re a boy! I say, and teen says sorry! Between suiciding around cis men and playing dead, I find my footing dissociating into fungus. Skirt boy’s hot mic monologue […]
The Story & Mushroom
The Story He has killed, the man, a doe. To be sure, it was an accident, but there was one private moment, just before he slammed on the brakes, when he hit the gas. Just to see. It is dusk. It will be years before he makes his confession. The eyes of things that […]
Freerice.com & The Ambassadors
Freerice.com Backslash famous-paintings where to recognize Water Lilies and Woman Reading A Letter is a virtue as leads to quantifiable purchase of relief food one passes through this game to know who made the image eat of this, the landscape is the value of impressions seen through this window its issuance its multiple choice […]
