In bed, a few weeks before Christmas, my boyfriend is scrolling through his phone after sex, looking for something to put in his cart. “Have you ever used a weighted blanket?” he asks, stretching out, back-flat on the mattress. “No.” I lay my head on his chest. “Want to get me one?” He looks down […]
All of them sat in a corner of Sashi Master’s living room as it rained heavily outside. In his modest house, the living room was the only place where they could sit together. Twelve of them, including the village headman, Radhamadhav ji. “Sashi, what’s the radio saying? How long will it rain?” asked Radhamadhav. “Radio […]
Moros’ corporeal form is an awkward tangle of too-long limbs and too-narrow hips, neither of which ease his drive through the congested streets of lower Manhattan. He quite enjoys the stench of diesel inside the sedan, all the more so with society’s absolution of fossil fuels. What’s the point when even their eco-friendly alternatives come […]
At every side, cannons. And the only escape… A small and muddy swath with lungs of afternoon and flowers of yesterday soaked in earth and red oil. Kettles in either hand each glowing as stars and each screaming at walls they cannot see. Chopped skeletons decorate and chill breeze seems to know how foolish indeed […]
my favorite historian says “Evangelicals want to keep Israel real for the rapture,” now their plans are falling into place: their bombs are falling into Gaza; their anti-Zionism = anti-Semitism equation is falling into discourse hungry for excuse for genocide two wrongs mean they’re right while we blame the wrong warmongers diaspora-mongers social-unrest-mongers climate-catastrophe-mongers I […]
LEOPARD Thus walks a beast in Eden, Oblivious of a long thinking tail, Thinking nothing of who wove the spots, Why velvet hands carry the most fatal claws, but during thirst, when water stabs a sight, a doubt, deep into the heart. NOW I CAN LOVE THE WIND A bind is now loose. I’m shot […]
TONGUE A tongue was plantedin my mouth,then candida growling in the house,patted flattwo-handed rote,a love-bound pact,ring of throat ─that dog, long-dead,and dead-wrong,bowing its headlike a swan ─ a lick of youth, a kiss, a woof. EARLOBE I.Violetsfor joint painand insomnia, sanestylus,five count,garden beetle,heat-beadeddoubt. Mama’s boy,martial boyof mice and morals,cynic soil,Solomon,yard quarrels. II.Indoors,stay child ─door […]
On a dismal autumn afternoon, Eleanor Lytton made her way along a narrow boardwalk through the reeds and cattails of a desolate marsh. Leaves had long since fallen, and the smell of distant bonfires hung over the grey landscape. In the eerie stillness, she recalled stories she’d heard since childhood about the ravine being home […]
Finding a place to live in Philly on a part-time income took much work. And at one point, I told my best friend, Bryan, that I’d probably stay at my parents’ house until I finished my English degree. The available spaces were either too expensive or in an undesirable neighborhood where I felt nervous walking […]
‘Twas one of those days one starts by referring to the old self with numbers and using the word ‘twas. Well, I wasn’t sure if it even was day already, because my eyes were in a similar state as my uncle Heinrich’s window shutters. You see, they just opened when he applied brute force. And […]