All the Sciences by Laura Eve Engel   The year I fail all the sciences there are many factors but no one’s in any way confused. The radio brimming with everything it knows about some shooters until it gets the shooters down to two. The dead men’s rooms reveal...

Historical Documents by Kelly Forsythe   I am writing an autobiography of myself as a man. I want to use the word “excavate” here   but I’ll use “imagining” instead, as in / you see me imagining deep unconscious feelings of manliness. Doesn’t everyone love tan...

Hebrew Lesson: Lichbosh by Marcela Sulak   To conquer, occupy, preserve   Before bowls and jugs existed there were clay walls around Jericho—its name means fragment, and sometimes, it means moon. How to enter it is crucial. Wise to have spies when you’re...

Am I going to get raped in the park where I read my mother's poem by Anne Marie Rooney   Is that why they keep the gate locked so I can know not to enter I am every girl on a bicycle and my hair feels good I want to say salty but river beside me oils a coming The...

Anatomy (II) by Rachel Mennies   Today I let a man touch me whose hands had been inside the dead. We make a habit of this: touching after anatomy lecture, after convocation with the cadavers, the basement of fumes and rubbery cold muscle. Together we reclaim the twin...

[Anna] by Julie Carr   Finds a bird’s nest in a pile of leaves. Tightly wound scraps of the news. Carries it into the house and sets it on the table.   After a while, she goes back out to play. The game she’s playing is called “Anna.” It’s a game in which...

Malamute by Jehanne Dubrow   Honduras, 1947   Someone brought winter to the tropics. At first, it slept near the roots of a strangler tree, curled under chairs, licked salt from sweating ankles. It was content. Table scraps fed its belly. Breezes carried the...

{ } by Rachel Springer   { } This is my war face whispering for you to get wet. Dark hair pelts you, pots & pans & pigtails clamoring. Had I a horse, I’d hold you to that. Slab on slab of hearing you call daddy, I say fuck me in that order. You give...