Six Poems by Jane Wong

  Editorial Statment by Sueyeun Juliette Lee: This selection comes from a short manuscript of Jane Wong’s, titled Impossible Map. Wong’s poems speak to me with a dark urgency. They remind me that the world is in slow collapse about us. This patient devastation is mirrored internally, as well. Our memories may one day pepper our psychological landscapes with the same strangeness and beauty that … Continue reading Six Poems by Jane Wong

Poetry by Michael Leong

  from Michael Palmer vs. Michael Palmer              Inside the obscene calm was a spasm, a curdled voice shaking in the snowy eye of the mirror. Nattie nodded at the masked face staring back and struggled to guide her white-hot spear into the iris. A weave of honey and blood immediately spattered from the thrusting.            She untied her ebony dress, her amber hair … Continue reading Poetry by Michael Leong

A Poem by Krystal Languell

  Hate Is Unbecoming              His dreams are of the next sex vacation. Average bodies permitting anonymity that I can’t stomach. My fantasy is that I’ll find another little circus in a parking lot. A broken Zoltar machine in Baltimore one winter, I fed it quarters anyway and wished him out of my blood, wished myself tougher, more relevant by which I mean the … Continue reading A Poem by Krystal Languell

Two Poems by Lara Candland

  discrete conjecture between physicians— their richer philological blunders quickened the cure corkless substances wafted on the sinews— your body’s cordage tightens against the doc’s jostling your gored cocoon balances the room’s minuter barometric measurements ** this inscape is more picturesque than you remember—what a spectre! axles resist lifting indurated by an artless disease (wring an entomology from the beautiful slide foresooken just in time … Continue reading Two Poems by Lara Candland

Four Poems by Louie Crew

Queer Power   Swish, swish, men of America. Cross your legs only at 90-degree angles. Swish, swish! Your fingernails are getting a mite too long. Swish, swish! That fuchsia shirt might be misunderstood. Swish, swish! You’d better lower your pitches and say something evil about your mothers. Swish, swish! You smell too sweet and are too polite.  Be crude. Swish, swish! Talk about war, not … Continue reading Four Poems by Louie Crew

A Poem by Matvei Yankelevich

A/M   Struggle with the orange juice container. Lack of voice to ask for assistance. Perception of one’s hands, one, then the other; the same? Sensation of dryness– outside. Inside, something like dryness, but swollen. Act of imagination involving other possible outcomes, sets of ulterior movements. Reevaluation of motives in the act of choice. Clarification of moral positions. Justification of chance events through assertion of … Continue reading A Poem by Matvei Yankelevich

Two Poems by Marc Nasdor

from Insurgentes   Booed-ism   Ordered mind answers itself: ick! spittle! from booths in a café littered with expats about to be blown to detritus. Where were you, far from that? There’s elephant offal for sale over there; here only thoughts of “confiscatory” taxes grinding the minds of bloated emoticons, rubber latrines sunk deep into Disco Nap. Symmetry wobbles & persons aforementioned freak them- selves … Continue reading Two Poems by Marc Nasdor

Three Poems by Marthe Reed

A room   there are amazements / you like to stray into and / my body’s only one of them ‒Rosmarie Waldrop   A room affords confinement, panopticon, its exotic formulae: a mode of detour and “lawless imagination” A gap widens leaving both air and breath gasping She prepares his tea.  She promises an end.  What he always wanted.  Narrative dancing in its own embrace … Continue reading Three Poems by Marthe Reed