Two Poems by Yun Wang

Two Poems by Yun Wang

Art: Earth in Distress by Britnie Walston     Two Poems by Yun Wang, from “The Book of Mirrors” (White Pine Press, 2021)   Sam’s Plan   The little planet is green With lemonade ocean Boys are blue Girls are pink They are ant-size   Forests are purple...
Red Rock, Salvation by Jake Bailey

Red Rock, Salvation by Jake Bailey

Art by: Cyril Larvor           Red Rock, Salvation    Honey pot cosmos, killer bee missiles writing a poetics of space on wet-flecked tongues— do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Savior?   In Illinois, a statue of the Blessed...
Radioactive Wonder Boy by Jake Bailey

Radioactive Wonder Boy by Jake Bailey

Art: Analyses cela, huile sur lin by Boré Ivanoff           The Radioactive Wonder Boy      Are you happy? I’m happ- ening in two spaces at once   Jump when they call you   Call you, it’s all you’ve got              A worn-down...
Thich by Benjamin Goluboff

Thich by Benjamin Goluboff

Art: Nebula by Robert Ferrier THICH   THICH was on top of 3240 W. Lawrence, above where the granite saysDAVID FIREPROOF STORAGE WAREHOUSE 1916,which is above where the awning saysL&L APPLIANCE MART.This is between Kedzie and Sawyer,across from TACO MONTANAand...
What I am by Bob McAfee

What I am by Bob McAfee

Art: Coy by Fabrice B. Poussin       What I Am   I am a pit bull, a snog growler, a groundAnd pound puppy, nobody’s sleeping beauty, Nobody’s bamboo mirror, no whirligigFlapping on a rooftop, I am the hair atop Old Baldy, Douglas fir erect as...
ghosts of shivalik by Kulbir Saran

ghosts of shivalik by Kulbir Saran

Art: ABYSSALES, III, 2020 by Helena Barbbagelata ghosts of shivalik   girls are taught to lock their windows, doors and eyes at night for ghosts wander the hostel halls many think they come from the cemetery she was built upon but the truth is, they come from...