Author: Ben Voigt

5.2 (Initial Operations: Movement Inland) Inland are cities of light sprawling machinesthat can traverse the past.By means of light, one cantouch the beginning oftime itself: it is a columnof fire, impenetrable, bentto the body like an operacontaining the sea,the rolling sea minusthe gondolas. The engine is made of singing. 6.7 (Infantry Patrols: Laying Ambushes) A… Continue reading Chris Santiago

Before Lorca I. By Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khatib, after Jack SpicerWritten to explain himself The night when darkness concealsfrom the brightness of the dimpled suns all the secrets of elegance, only thenslinking down into the firmamentand trying to rise up straight againflawed and thwarted by its fleeting — The night when aurora and envoys seekto… Continue reading SJ Pearce

SalansanSa saliw ng lagaslas na yumayapos sa kanyang tuhod, dahan-dahan, marahan niyang pinagpapatong-patong ang mga bato.Madalas mabigo ang tangka. Napaamo na ang dulas ng ikalawa, huhulagpos naman ang mailap na sentro ng grabidad ng ikatlo.Maghapon siyang lubog at nakayuko. Pawisan sa gitna ng agos — iginigiit sa mga toreng salansan na sa matiyagang pakikinig sa… Continue reading Jhio Jan Navarro

What is a quadrilateral? And what does that mean on the internet? As I walked out one evening, the trees in my neighborhood were pulling me back. There was a wind in the trees. And people living in trees. My last paycheck I sprinkled money on the lawn to lure them down. At least don’t… Continue reading Kent Shaw

black hole sonnet my love, the astronaut atop the steel cometflings herself into what could be called but isn’tdeath, she thinks, since it is eating her, it should chewand make of her some sound, instead she is madea witness, a camera stuck on the stick of timeand what terrible ululation scrapes its throatall the common… Continue reading Norah Brady

From the author: It’s no secret that American law enforcement is sometimes enacted haphazardly, and that sometimes — more often than we’d like to admit — courts support the claims and actions of officers at the cost of the well-being of citizens. Particularly if the citizen in question is an addict and/or mentally ill and/or… Continue reading Sophie Klahr

To Lucifer the Sameness lucifer as verbcan we lucifer the martyr who is the martyrmire encasing the feetto lucifer rhymecan cereal rhyme with etherealcan Midas rhyme with sinuspastime for bourgeois passengers on the boat to veracityaccording to the kissed lisperwhat is Carol’s relation to ficuswhat is ululation’s relation to reignwho is Carol and does she… Continue reading Wayne Koestenbaum

What I’ll MissProb won’t be sycamores, a childhood of nesting robins,peeling bark. Will it be the bald cypresses at Corkscrew Swamp, the last three miles of a 30-mile swath saved from chopping and draining, conversion to crop or pasture use? I know I’ll def miss the return of the swallows to Seattle on or about… Continue reading Martha Silano

When my partner is sad, she thinks she’s an 1.You are not the ostrich you think you are. Your grief does not stretch beyond your torso like a tunnel into the brain. You have taken lessons in flying and dodging the electric wires. What’s really heavy is the season’s duvet, the brashness of the bleak… Continue reading Debmalya Bandyopadhyay

sea otters hold hands in their sleepas if saying this will not be the river hero & leander drowned in,so let this little story be something more than survival, please? i finally want to learn how to want to live:adrift but afloat, making a daisy chain of short & slender fingers. now’s as good a… Continue reading Leander He