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May 251 min read
Second Chance By Karen Battoo
Going back For a second chance Is not easy It’s like putting on A damp bathing suit Cold to the skin Tough to slide into Terribly...
May 251 min read
Rigor Mortis By Olympia Maria Koutentaki
I hardened myself Doused myself in liquid concrete Scrubbed the softness until I was raw Used sand for soap and stones for water Anything...
May 251 min read
Portal Man By Bronwyn Liddle
When I close my eyes I can go anywhere. Teleportation is real, I wouldn’t lie I swear. I shut my lids, then like magic I’m in your room,...
May 251 min read
Pasta Bake Heartbreak By Ryan Passey
The thing they don’t tell you About getting your heart broken Is that it doesn’t happen just once. It happens a thousand times a day. I...
May 251 min read
My Sadness Is Like a Wes Anderson Movie By Stevie Green
Prone to bouts of ennui that cover hours at a time, if I’m lucky. I know what I’m grieving but I won’t make a scene about it but I will...
May 251 min read
On The Train By Euan Fraser
I glanced down at the page of her book. I was a lot too drunk to read it exactly, but there were a lot of numbers. Not just numbers like...
May 251 min read
Love By Danielle Patino
A love where words Are declared Through moans And breathing so hard I can hear voice in it, You let obscenities slip out Like seeds from...
May 251 min read
Flagpole By Euan Fraser
I erected a giant flagpole in my garden. I wanted to make a statement— nail my colours to the mast as they say. But what to say? What to...
May 251 min read
Halloween By Ethan Lehrman
They’re all shivering outside the chippy And we observe them There too Sat on the stoop And slutty Nelson Mandela is spewing on...
May 252 min read
Boys Will Be Boys By Everette Leita-Butler
I grew up around a male dominated family. One blood aunt and three uncles to counter. One girl cousin and six boys to counter. One of me...
May 251 min read
Eat The Rich! By Joseph Marshall
I will not eat a wild animal free to the wind serving the circle of life I will not eat a farm animal cruelly contained slaughtered and...
May 251 min read
A White Lie By Richard Axtell
Dear God, please forgive me today I lied to my mother when she asked me what ‘bukkake’ meant. Dear God, please forgive me I told my mum...
May 251 min read
A Metaphor For Killing A Mother By Quincy Kmetz
CATTLE FARM. TAKE BESSIE BEHIND THE SHACK HER CREAM FROM REARING HAS BEEN RENDERED IRRELEVANT WE NEED BURGERS OUT EAST. STAT. WE HEAR THE...
May 251 min read
Bees And Other Assorted Bugs By Cat Cattington
Sipping on bubbly elderflower Flies doted around the bench Beetles finding shelter Amidst my knotting tress Ladybugs waddled Across burnt...
Mar 122 min read
The Pest Control Guy By Emry Beattie
I have a guest coming over The apple of my eye The object of my lust The pest control guy There’s just something about him As I peer...
Mar 121 min read
True By Ben Aizenberg
Eat my heart And all its trappings Take it while it still beats. Eat. Within its chords are our days, Each more fleeting than the last....
Mar 121 min read
Your Bitch By Lauren Lenyi
From a very young age I was made to help, Hold, support, and heal. I was good at my role. But what no one understands Even though I act...
Mar 121 min read
Peter the Beetle By Charlie Rue
Every night Peter would remove his bones and curl in on himself, chewing on his legs as the wind sang him to sleep, he had to do this so...
Mar 121 min read
Spare Room By Brayden Benedict
My heart is a house And you signed a lease Though you up and left And broke the contact So I now just rent out the spare room.
Mar 121 min read
Rage Is By Christian Ward
a clenched fist in the middle of a forest, every bird gathered round it to prevent the smoke, the inconsolable truth bright as white-hot...