Before the Flood by Jamie Willoughby

Before the Flood by Jamie Willoughby

Art: Amihan by Ernest Williamson III  Before the Flood    This work originally appeared in Issue Eight of the online magazine Surging Tide in February, 2023.       About the artist: Jamie Willoughby is a high school junior at Geffen Academy in Los...
A Bolt is not a Screw by Jake Zawlacki

A Bolt is not a Screw by Jake Zawlacki

Art: Thrallment of Reincarnation by Eric Chamberlain     A Bolt is not a Screw   It’s a bolt. Its threads are coarse or fine, the little ridges wide | | | | or narrow |||| depending on how tight youwant to be bound with me. They hold things together through...
Poems by Michael Chang

Poems by Michael Chang

Art: Blueberries by Clarke Condé dispatches from supper club   “The edge of a lie I offered you / the smell of your body behind a flannel shirt”—Douglas Crase, Toronto Means the Meeting Place “The shirt seemed heavy until he saw there was another shirt inside it...
Poems by Suphil Lee Park

Poems by Suphil Lee Park

Art: from Excavations series by Detlef Gotzens   Change of Heart    It’d make no differenceif you did or didn’t.           I’m addressing a fly           for the world’s been reduced           to that–a self           interest I cannot fault.But if you found...