Despy Boutris
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Issue 25
Latest Reviews
Featured Interview
Newest Essay
The Taco Robbers From Last Week
Steve Bargdill
“How awesome would it be to hit the Taco Bells in Columbus? Kick back on the couch with a couple tacos and drink Mountain Dew. We could have coasters to keep condensation off our coffee tables.”
Scent of Wood
Adhimas Prasetyo
Translated by Liswindio Apendicaesar
“so much of drizzle at that dark night, / when the cold and my fingers were fighting to crawl
at your nape hair.”
After Jazz Ends
Adhimas Prasetyo
Translated by Liswindio Apendicaesar
“you feel like a part of you is left inside jazz. you find another part that is reading this poem.”
Before the Jazz Ends
Adhimas Prasetyo
Translated by Liswindio Apendicaesar
“before the jazz ends, you imagine a piece of night slowing down.”
Weatherman
Gillian Parrish
“When he wakes, he wakes in sweat, wakes in panic, turns to see if she’s in pain, if she wants water or his warm hand on her back, but she’s not there, and his heart falls into his stomach and he remembers.”
Rebirth
Tamiko Dooley
“You pulled a violet crown-of-thorns out of the sea in Okinawa”
Shaky From Malnutrition
Mercury-Marvin Sunderland
“MOM. YOU CAN’T FOLLOW ME AROUND.”
The Embassy
Khalil AbuSharekh
“I connected with her because, like her, I sit in our family grocery store every day. I found them to be like us: family, traditions, war, and now they are a strong country. Japanese people are exactly like us, but advanced.”
shelf life
Shin Yu Pai
“when my son’s cough / lingers, I feed him spoonfuls”
marble chunk
Shin Yu Pai
“it rested in a parking lot in North Seattle / the unhewn hunk of quarried stone touched”
Out There
Daryll Delgado
“Gestures, words, details surface like a relief as the background is chiseled away so effectively as to reveal the unmistakable scene. My god, what were we thinking? “
Life Stories
Robert(a) Ruisza Marshall
“It will, I tell myself, do no one harm if I post something about R, if I insinuate a greater relationship than was really there. No one will call me out or call me false. Do we really think the dead aren’t watching?”
Catastrophic
Brian Henry
“When I think of how / my life was spent.”
Mine
Brian Henry
“Even your gaze runs / no risk of falling.”
Auditions for Interference Theory
Emilee Prado
“If you input more information while the memory is fragile, you can imbed the old memory with something new.”
Thralls
Kevin McIlvoy
“Why don’t you make a little poem of your self-pity?”
Solution
Linda Morales Caballero
Translated by Marko Miletich, PhD
“An appointment with this man has become a waiting game.”
Visitations
Caroline Fernelius
“On occasion, home-boundedness was almost frightening; she felt like an amphibian in a very tiny jar.”
i once was a witch
Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
“They carry a little flame inside they do / To say their name takes a little fire
Epigenetics
Diti Ronen
Translated by Joanna Chen
“A cold wind is also a voice / and distant music / a man turning over in his sleep / dreaming of home.”
Sister in Basement, Manny Again Elsewhere
Robert Lopez
“What’s happened between them is so complex it would be impossible for anyone to articulate it without the benefit of hindsight or omniscience.”
Bomarzo
Cecilia Pavón
Translated by Jacob Steinberg
“It wasn’t just conjecture or a form of emotional bribery. It was a sincere impulse. I’ll gift him everything and close the shop.”