My Once and Future Body

By DYLAN MCNULTY-HOLMES

Would tell you how I, fourteen, dreamt of these exact hands / In the latent underside of a wave.


RECENTLY PUBLISHED


15 Oct 2025

POETRY

Image shows a person in a long black dress and with bare feet extending their hands towards the camera, which are covered in dark brown dirt and soil. The image is focused on the details of the dirt on the palms and fingers, with other details blurred. The lighting is warm and dim, with a few rays of orange light illuminating the hands.

Only Hands

By MICHELLE PHUONG HO

He laid his body / at my feet and covered himself / with dirt.

1 Oct 2025

POETRY

Image shows a large oak tree in a small field, with a forest behind it. The air is misty and the sky is pale orange and yellow from sunrise. The misty golden orange light contrasts with the dark outline of the tree and its branches, and the dark shadows in the foreground. Fence posts can be faintly seen behind the tree, along the field.

Aubade

By BENJAMIN BARTU

In the hills the fire-frightened wildlife /
are drawn to the scent of what has burned

16 Jul 2025

POETRY

Image shows a close up of gasoline on wet pavement. The pavement is dark gray, and the gasoline spill is a crescent arc of chromatic colors that radiate outward. The colors are bright and vivid, with pink, green, blue and purple. White light dimly shines down from above. The image is focused on the area in the middle of the gasoline streaks and other areas appear slightly blurred.

On Devotion

By MICHAEL M. WEINSTEIN

what will you whisper into my crevices this time?

2 Jul 2025

POETRY

Image shows a close up of an abstract painting. The background is black mixed with streaks of red. A white trail tinged with red is in the foreground, containing swirling overlapping patterns. It fades into the black at the bottom of the image.

Pig Brain

By CHAU ANH NGUYEN

whatever i lack, there’s an offal for that