by Celia Easton Koehler | Jun 18, 2024 | Poetry
POETRY This is an Intersection by Celia Easton Koehler Illustration by Annabelle Bullock this is an intersection the picnic table arranges spaceconstructs a room gravel island between street and railroad towing enforced at all times once red now pink tow truck...
by Jasper Beck | May 2, 2024 | Poetry
POETRY Parasaurolophus Song by Jasper Beck Photo by Viggo Beck Parasaurolophus Song maybe like a saxophone playedthrough cranial crest, crooningheartthrob blues, but scaled up,so much bigger than us, we assumethey ruled the earth. maybe like a bull elk bugle, a...
by Kit Evans | Apr 25, 2024 | Poetry
POETRY Newberry Lava Love by Kit Evans Photo by Daniel Tankersley Newberry Lava Love Lemon vodka on the lips, your huge handwrapped around my whole fist, hurdlingthrough forested slopes in my Jeep.The pines end. Pocked rock starts.Petrified lava flows from 7,000 years...
by Trinity Herr | Feb 29, 2024 | Poetry
POETRY BY Trinity Herr Photo by Camden Jones Controlled Burning It blisters down to boundaries —marked and measured. Dig the fire lines wide — wider, even, that the breadth of our campfire,the metal ring circling it —these rounds we rest on. Whoever’s in charge,...
by Jackson Mills Smith | Feb 29, 2024 | Poetry
POETRY Small Thirst by Jackson Mills Smith Photo by Jackson Mills Smith Small Thirst Some stand along a snowbankat the pass and knockthe powder from a Douglas firlike a five-piece band on Highway 26. Having tested and pried and workedin many faiths, there’s a...
by Sam Bovard | Feb 28, 2024 | Poetry
POETRY Spitting Distance by Sam Bovard Illustration by Sam Bovard Spitting Distance Yellow ore-rich dirt spilled outfrom the long-abandoned orifice,where men once toiled blindlyto bring silver into the sunlight. As wereached the final basin above the mine,the misty...