Themes & Variations: Vanitas and Grisaille
Paste the blueprint onto any cylinder // & it becomes a continuum, a battle plan // wrapped in flypaper’s ad infinitum.
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Latest Publications:
With Someone You Care About
By Lola Bosa
My boyfriend likes to undress me in a nonsexual way, or at least that’s how it feels.
Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning (Psalm 30:5)
The charlatan bilked them // Out of what they’d said was sacred. // The lion's teeth specialize in cutting meat.
midwife and pieces
By M. Frost
stumble // through snow // mounds // belly-deep // form // elemental // letters
living for a while
living for a while in a hospital // is living in the world of footsteps // and changing emotions.
Bang, Summer coming, and the colours, and Mark
By DS Maolalai
it's october. fireworks bang // like cracked knuckles.
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