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What I Offered Up by Lynn-Cee Faulk
The first bath after leaving the institution was a baptism. I surrendered it all to the water like dark offerings to a dark god. In the swirls of warm water, I unfurled my armor, scraping it away with the razor blade over my fuzzy legs, secreted it to the soapy suds that clung to my…
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Poetry by Hope Arjomand
Seeking Damage I envy all the freaks the careless the risk-takers Particularly the vulnerable Those not debilitated by fear If you wear your flaws well You become interesting It’s no fun to be the wallflower the shadows are less engaging the silence is too loud I’m looking to be destroyed by those who do not…
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Poetry by Catherine Garbinsky
Catherine Garbinsky is a writer living in Knoxville, Tennessee. They are currently studying for their MFA in Poetry at the University of Tennessee-Knoxille. Catherine serves as Assistant Poetry Editor for Homology Lit. They are the author of two chapbooks, All Spells Are Strong Here (Ghost City Press) and Even Curses End (Animal Heart Press, 2019).
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Watercolour Paintings by JW Summerisle
two small watercolour paintings – based on photographs of Victorian girls, inmates of the workhouse. JW Summerisle lives in the English East Midlands. Their poetry & artwork can be found in Catatonic Daughters, The Madrigal, SAND, & Re-Side. They may sometimes be found on twitter @jw_Summerisle
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Talisman by Daniel Casey
It was hard enough, so I thought today I would try being beautiful. Scrounging through boxes of long ago nonsense I found keepsakes. I wore them. It felt good. I felt like I did when I had them— happy, fun—before I became so worried, hurt. For a moment, healed. I keep them now, give them…
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Poetry by Mauricio Moreno
Evolve To evolve is to hurt Shedding soft uncalloused skin, bruised and sunburnt, in place of graphene armor, breaking brittle bones in place of stainless steel, resilient, impregnable. An eagle, upon reaching maturity, must mutilate its gnarled beak, days of agony, excruciating pain, or die of starvation. To evolve is to bleed Purging the…
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Videopoem(s) by Matty Heimgartner
Matty Heimgartner is a California artist and writer whose surreal paintings and personal essays tend toward the introspective and reflective. Heimgartner often participates in art shows around the San Francisco Bay Area, and his art has been featured in the magazines CreativPaper, Beyond Words, Content, and Artist Portfolio. His nonfiction appears in Reed Magazine, Thanks Hun, and Beyond Queer Words. Matty holds a BA in art and…
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Poetry by Kaisa Saarinen
Lines in the sand After watching you shatter pink magic sand on bathroom tiles I search myself for a splinter a shadow at the foot of her bed We fell the same distance in the night sometimes she dials yet only I remain whole. breathing hard. all unsaid I possess a strange resistance. behind the house the woods are thin Is…
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Poetry & Photography by Ellie Lopez
THE REDWOODS “There are Redwoods in Oakland”I tell him as we smoke the trees from our fingers to the sky. He laughs. And laughs and laughs,until all that is left of us is leaves and branches. There are Redwoods in Oakland. He doesn’t believe me. His voice carries louder than lighting. I sit and feel my fingers tingle with anger,and…
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Poetry & Photography by Joanna C. Valente
Being It is nevernot enough— that feelingof being held, an icicle meltingin the sun, a child smellinga wild forest for the first timeand feeling home away from home. I suppose I havefinally grown upand am ready to be the rock and notthe wind. But here we arewitness tocertain change. Joanna C. Valente is an alien…
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