Hair kept unkempt to flow in the wind. Clouds reign over the sea by this road. Tires sear the pavement with our passion so hard we leaveblue embers behind. Ankles on dashboards, sunglasses in rainbow.Skin on skin, the tenderness of a hand, of a laugh. Peach fuzz & smiles.The horizon: blushing red like a first kiss, ensnaring our eyes someplace warmer […]
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on our last day of happiness she drove me to the Tennessee borderfists clenched on the wheel through the crowded interstate turnsbefore tumbling into the never-far-away fringes of nowhere, forestbreaking a fever in the mid-afternoon sun. she parks illegally, tugs down her sunglasses, and we wind into the humid heavyjade and emerald shadows. it’s taking too […]
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after Eleanor Wikstrom & while writing this, mā, i am still learning how your absencebites my body bare under yellowed street lamps,carves tragedy or myth or memory out of a girl’s womb. mā, is this thedistance between girl & womanhood? tonight, against the cold- faced concrete, i sketch the city skyline, traceevery path we took down the alleys. […]
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Highlighting recently released and forthcoming works by marginalized creators Sex Goblin by Lauren Cook As if hauled up squirming from the bowels of the internet, Sex Goblin metabolizes sex writing, popular culture, and autofiction to present the real and the imagined as equally surreal possibilities. In the narrator’s childlike voice, all things become both mundane […]
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“Lived and died a fat seven inches from your closet / toe. The gray heads of rainwater blown in. I / fought my own omens, their circles” (Moore 1). And so begins Iva Moore’s debut chapbook, Women Collapse into Better, Brighter Artists, a work that deftly examines gendered identity and relationships, womanhood as an inherently […]
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This month’s artist, Lucy Liu, captures a tender and powerful moment between a mother and daughter with her piece, Holding On. Liu shares her artistic journey and gives us insight as to how she uses painting and drawing to explore her imagination and express her emotions. You’ve mentioned you started learning art at a very young age, […]
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(content warning: mental illness, suicide, body horror) The first track of Isaac Hayes’s Hot Buttered Soul plays in the background. “Walk on By” is a cover song; subsequently it has been sampled repeatedly: Damn they trynna stick me for my paper. I can’t go to sleep. I can’t shut my eyes. But my technique is […]
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Once upon a time there was a great and powerful king. When he first assumed control of the kingdom, after his father the previous king passed away, life for the people wasn’t so good. They went hungry most of the time, food and clean water were scarce, and nice houses only existed in dreams. The king’s subjects were […]
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VAGABOND CITY 