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Art by JW Summerisle
jumieges is a painting upon a painting / scraped out and replaced / bayeux tapestry on ghost / girl awkward / dead king & yellow god all red spun on garbage wood JW Summerisle lives in the English East Midlands. Their poetry & artwork can be found in Catatonic Daughters, The Madrigal, SAND, & Re-Side.…
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Collages by Vian Borchert
“Inside Outside Mixed Media Series” In these mixed media pieces that combine my love of painting and construction, I aimed to go beyond my signature painterly strokes and meld together the world of painting and 3D elements of collage. These are my latest works of art, made around mid July 2021. In these works, I challenged…
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Poetry by Benjamin Goodney
Alive (En Banco Plato) Our boat is sunk, and I can see no other survivors. Silt falls a long while to the wreck and the bleached reef. Skua circle. Beyond the sky a concussion of sun. At every compass point unmapped cliffs, deserted wellshaft crumbling in — stormdark clouds. Visions come; I recline in half…
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Poetry by HLR
Mundane Things That Immediately Make Me Think of a Specific Dead Person washing my hair over the edge of the bath • orange squash • doing the crossword • unscrewing / emptying / refilling a hot water bottle • stripping the bed & putting on fresh covers • rope • inspecting my scalp for grey hairs • snow • poaching eggs • denim…
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post-op (after the hysterectomy in anaesthetic fog) by Jane Ayres
i wake in a different body being less than i was emptied out through the bloody keyhole my old home / my new home the same / not the same i dis/solve wide shingle skies / speckled walkways where charcoal-crushed violets fizzle black silt flaking / spiky connective tissue books shelved / dust heavy /…
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Poems by Katy Naylor
sext the story goes that when they spied the kraken’s head sailors set off home-made flares for the fleet on the horizon legend has it that when he had abandoned ship and the captain washed up far from home he lit beacons every night for the shadows of passing ships coffee, sandwich a buzz in…
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Poetry by James Diaz
Start Here, Find Yourself There “Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.” —Poincaré There is a darkness, you know, this darkness, I think, have seen and sat through it before, been taught its ways— been tempted but never mind that, we swivel our hearts towards fallen snow, birds in…
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Poetry by Mckenzie Lee
Goblin hymn Goblin God Puzzle-Grass God God of babies born with Jaundice and kept their first days in a box with blue light. God of nauseous newborns still reeling from previous incarnations, who lift their heads too early and make the nurse cross herself and slam the door behind her. Spleen God Picking at your…
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Collage Poems by Monique Quintana
Monique Quintana is from Fresno, CA, and the author of Cenote City (Clash Books, 2019) and the chapbook My Favorite Sancho and Other Fairy Tales (Sword and Kettle Press, 2021). Her work has appeared in Pank, Wildness, Winter Tangerine, Cheap Pop, Okay Donkey, and other publications. You can find her book reviews and artist interviews at Luna…
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Photography by Maxwell Suzuki
Maxwell Suzuki is a Japanese American writer and artist who has recently graduated from USC. He is currently writing a novel on the generational disconnect of Japanese American immigrants and their children. Some of his other work can be found at Young Ravens Literary Review and www.lindenandbuckskin.com.