Issue 4 – Mar 23

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“I want to change skin;
tear the old one from me.”

The Geode

Under armadillo armorrough torn patchesiron tough. Beneath taut scarsabraded tissue tornto compost fodder. Down, down into dark –cry to sleep, count sheep,dashed dreams and nightmares: childhood locked away…

New Bone

Water and its sounds taking rounds of de-devotion.I wish I could say it was gentle, that it would listenwhen I mimicked the sun.What stayed was weightwashing over, a…

Breakage

I.Dorsal surface of a mouse skullas unflinching as its neck.Circle close just above clavicle,spiraling outward, slippagethen clean, sharp clamping,feel the bone shutter beforequieting the unquietness. II.A sentiment that…

genderfox

the other night you found me in my binary shell:one finger dancing over the emergency sos switch on my phonethe other being dragged around by unwanted thoughtsone glance…

New Skin

When I heard my epidermis ticking like a time bomb.When I heard him whispermy name as he touched the soft parts.When I heard my voice say “no.”When I…

Periphery

I’ve tried to say this before, in the wrong ways.  Everything is real until it becomes true.  Like standing straight up in my corner-enclosure shower in my first…

Judah

I am a childless mother who teaches teenage boys tenderness. I lose them in malls and to life sentences. I shop online for a skeleton key. I repeat…

Desert Snow

The first snow happens quietly, midnight on a Sunday. It tells no one its whereabouts, and before it shows itself, we wait with the frustration of bored soldiers,…

The Letting Go

Skin taunt like over ripe fruitvelveteen under your mouththe way it eventually yieldsand splitswetly against the guillotineof your teeth I yield to your sharp edges I yieldI yield…

SAND

I put my fingers in the hot sand of the dune and close my hand, but the sand disappears between my fingers. I imagine being a gecko, a…

Dream

In the white haze, in black spots, in the blizzard of time, in the fact that winter is coming, do not pronounce the names of the past, they…