Metanoia by Alexandra Gilwit

Last summer my roommate went missing. George. We had talked on a Friday, but I didn’t notice that he was…

Charming by Laura Passin

If a man climbs
 your window, they say,

What They Don’t Tell You by Laura Halferty

They don’t tell you that you’ll learn to dread the evenings after dinner. The…

A Declaration by Hannah Yerington

I am stripping myself of your scent, of dust and sleep, slight aftershave, wet hair.
I am stripping…

Pear by Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad

From the gutters of the right lobe, that hefty
plum muscle with veins installed like threads
of a stubborn sweater, from the base of that
small croissant, wet, lodged between ribs nine
and eleven, from the gaps between colonic crypts,
the end curves of test tube walls, from…

Poem In Which You Are Joan of Arc’s Lover by Emily Rose Cole

An incomplete survey of ocean life by Margaret Perry

My favorite animal is the blue whale;
I like that their hearts are as big as cars
and how they communicate through song.
I tell my mother how I’d like to be a whale,
and she thinks it a bad omen.

2 Poems by Sally Burnette

eros // thanatos

Pillars by Alyssa Sorresso

I just saw a grandfather bury his granddaughters in the sand. The mother and grandmother stood over them, the grandmother holding a camera, pointing towards them, requesting “Say, Lake Michigan!” Which they did, the two girls, about 6 and 8, heads poking out of the earth like…

devil’s tower by Stevie Lynn Hunter

let’s make it personal. that night i bit my tongue and thought of you, how blood tastes like iron…