The tree is topless, all trunk. Its body cuts open to the sky, slit running up most its length like a dress designed to surprise, when...

In the upstairs hallway, I struggle with the intruder while downstairs the boys try to figure out the rotary phone to dial the...

To the physicist and artist, both sides of the coin are the same: truth-beauty reduced to particle-waves, images...

I’m Just Like This I like getting tattoos because they’re a socially acceptable form of self-harm I like $3.79 transactions on my credit...

In Mrs. Pruette’s class, we wrote all year to fellow third graders in a neighboring district. I was paired up with a popular kid who was...

My room’s view is of a Home Depot at the base of a giant American flag dying violently in the sunset. Perched against more pillows than...

Michael Blaine grew up on the Eastern Shore in the mostly agricultural town of Laurel.  He studied English at Ole Miss and holds a...

We entered Beijing at night, eight hours spent jostling on a train, pacing down rows of seats; hills running from us, land smoothing...

Rows of naked faces—no one sees me now— absorbed before the actors, titillated by tragedy, while I’m safe in Row 25, you in Row 24,...

Jason Fraley is a native West Virginian who lives, works, and periodically writes in Columbus, OH. Current and prior publications include...

Mira Rosenkotz writes, cooks, and lives outdoors as much as possible. Their work is heavily influenced by their environment and the...

Jory Mickelson is the author of three books of poetry Picturing (2025) , All This Divide, and Wilderness//Kingdom, winner of the High...

I. I found out how the butterfly lives, how sunbeams lap against its wings. II. There is always a yellow bird darting around the river,...

Paradise vendors sugar the apples in stereo, spoon bad religion, squeeze blind melon, no doubt counting crows, jellyfish, joy. Division...

The year that I turned ten, I discovered that division and divorce are not so very far apart not only in the dictionary, but also in...

Kill Pussy Kill! / Ode to the TITTYCHOP (1) under your picture from a high school yearbook, your exlover signed: “i can’t date a...

I've mapped your face a thousand times collecting our dirt. I should know better then to roam around our home along walls’ solid edges....

Annaliese Kunst is a poet from Milwaukee. She previously interned at Cream City Review and was the former Managing Editor of Furrow. ...

Hari B Parisi’s poems have been published in numerous journals, most recently in Sky Island Journal, The Inquisitive Eater, Little...

Garth Pavell is a New York writer and musician. His poems can be found in the recent or upcoming issues of Epiphany, MacQueen’s...