09
4/2022
Dogs
by Althea Baird
“... dust dogs curled together the color of salt,
the color of pecan...”
Virgo Season
by Ocean Escalanti
by Ocean Escalanti
“...Harpies shriek at noon
And i organize my little things...”
La Jolla Shores Beach Children’s Pool
by Maya Nordine
“...neutrality trudging through sand,
wiggling and wrapping my toes
around sea berries....”
La Jolla Shores Beach Children’s Pool
by Maya Nordine
wiggling and wrapping my toes
around sea berries....”
Vanilla Coke
by Shelby Hartness
“...I’m craving myself
I iron out my left
hand....”
Flower hill
by Annette Covrigaru
“...I could get tanned in this
Dunkin’ parking lot...”
How to say something crude in a quiet voice
by Justine Henry
“...Quiet; it’s the radiator
hurling expletives again
from across the room...”
Heart Poem
by Gabriel Lang
“...knocking at the door
Warm, sweaty expanse
table for two...”
OPEN DOORS
by Ruth Niemiec
by Ruth Niemiec
“...I liked you a lot, luscious lawns and tennis
I could see it in our future, white teeth, garden parties...”
On Love
by Taylor Koontz
by Taylor Koontz
“...I’ve never consumed love
It’s been put on my tongue
And spit out shortly after...”
chopsticks and bones
by Missie Yamamura
by Missie Yamamura
“...i sit at the farthest edge of my floor
cushion inhaling the lingering smell
of drugstore shampoo...”
window
by Sophronia Cook
by Sophronia Cook
“...Tearing navel orange slices
to become a mirage...”
08
2/2022
The Day Is Impossible
by Sophie Appel
“...what I’m doing is what’s
happening or something like that...”
autumn on the beach
by Dominic Calderon
“...remember, pumpkin,
when we were burning?...”
autumn on the beach
by Dominic Calderon
when we were burning?...”
Fuck God he/him for heartbreak
Thank God she/her for Joni Mitchell
by Liam Pitts
“...I wish I had a river up to the sun.
Past the clouds of angel hair....”
Family of Birds
by Meredith Elder
“...This is your chaos tape
to which you braid your hair...”
on scarcity
by Diana Hou
“...He can boil a whole chicken no salt no oil
He can charm a table afloat...”
What Happens During A Flood
by Hannah Weiner
“...like bread, like fingertips in a bath
that prune and unravel and untighten
the bones decalcifying...”
Getorade
by Patch One
“...everything is a truck brimming
w/ fluorescent hooded men inside...”
Mornings After
by Ross Calabro
by Ross Calabro
“...legs that cross in a way to say i love you...”
LA Woman
A Poem for Eve Babitz
by Jade Wootton
A Poem for Eve Babitz
by Jade Wootton
“...Have you ever done no contact forever
And does it ever stop feeling like silence...”
IF YOU SEE THIS BEAUTIFUL [REDACTED], PLEASE KILL IT
by Carson Jordan
by Carson Jordan
“...I visit a club called heaven
where I am bored to tears...”
07
12/2021
Trick lesson
by Joshua Vigil
“...it occurs to me:
a pearl doesn’t glisten
just to charm
the other pearls...”
Cardinals
by Em DeVincentis
“...I used to believe I would love
someone almond and crimson like
cardinals, sing the same birdie,
birdie, birdie....”
Cardinals
by Em DeVincentis
someone almond and crimson like
cardinals, sing the same birdie,
birdie, birdie....”
night moves
by Patrick Thornton
“...you say you only do it
with your socks on
some things need to be kept
hidden.....”
sunburst
by Alessandra Katherine
“...the kind of drive where the silence is too loud for
how full my head
your eyes
the sky, pink, melting, consumption....”
Rushed Painting
by Aida Muratoglu
“...The snake licks the
moonshine,
wipes it clean on the sun’s
ass, their after sex eyes
zigzagging,...”
postcard
by Brittany Menjivar
by Brittany Menjivar
“...a Ferris wheel is standing with no
passengers. no one can ride it now, not
even you or me....”
College Appetite©
by Aurora Giacobbe
“...slimy sardines, waiting to be picked from the bunch
by a professor who cares enough to
cook you
until you’ve done a job Rare and Well Done....”
for what reason should i break?
by Drenusha
by Drenusha
“...Why should I brake if I can go on forever?
Tell me one good reason to stop this ride
When it all feels so good?....”
06
10/2021
Take Me Out To The Ball Game
by Lucas Restivo
“...Growing older means appreciating baseball
and every hairstyle on the frustratingly slow green line...”
Mouth Twice of Two Moons
by Jairo Dealba
“...Mouth twice of two moons
Perhaps beating each other
Perhaps at all not...”
Mouth Twice of Two Moons
by Jairo Dealba
Perhaps beating each other
Perhaps at all not...”
Does Anyone Still Wear A Hat?
by Montana Thomas
“...If you can’t talk about fashion I guess you have to sit in soup all day thinking about how it
feels
to be born.....”
I Can’t Say I’d Recommend Camping
by Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo
“...and the gear shift is freaking as the sunset
calmly lays its heavyweight body on top of us
smushing us firm in our spot we said ok
here I guess....”
Leo x Leo
by Lily Lady Cook
“...Home team
Losing streak
Two weeks
Wet dreams...”
Shark Eyes Roll Into The Back of Their Heads When They Eat
by Christian Michael Filardo
by Christian Michael Filardo
“...I try to describe the pyramids to a blind man
It’s somewhere between a landmark and a shape
When I arrive in the city the sky opens up
Shark week is the perfect time of year to move...”
dre.aam.
by Danny Turek
“...we
hug & then i cry
for her because in
dreams you cry for
each other...”
02.22.2018
by Ross K Ledda
by Ross K Ledda
“...and continue to trudge
through all that holds you from absolution
leaving your vindictive strife behind....”
OF SNOW
by Scarlett Olsen
by Scarlett Olsen
“...When winter was warm in the Arizona
land he was angry with the sun, because
his son had seen pictures
Of snow...”
Moonsong
by Emilie Plunkett
by Emilie Plunkett