journeys/after remedios varo marcia arrieta the spaces of art. unexpected. surreal. chrysalislike. wheels & owls. veils. the clockmaker & time. the mind in the cupboard. clouds. streets. despite form—discovery. create music. in the spaces—light/darkness. the forest floor. the words are buried/emerge. juxtapose chance. embroider color. create the birds. * words hidden in clouds. manuscripts of…

Two Poems Elizabeth Kate Switaj Fire Flowers in the Lagoon turn my flesh into flowers burning in the cities of night let there be something beautiful in the chaos of you love me not, of what was tested on Bikini Atoll now a martini’s name, made with pandanus in Uliga let me breathe saltpeter &…

Veer-Off Steven Ray Smith The lights were purple, harlequin, and orange but they did not mean stop, or slow, or go like all the traffic signals I had known since outgrowing gibberish times when foreign everything went in and out my mouth and colors flashing beyond the window were jellies blinking to be eaten. On…

Warmest Pi Chad M. Horn I. Item Wraps dyslexic I calculating converse pi inverse algorithms / reverse rhythms & altogether skewed logic thus, 7 divided by 22 equals 0.32; less than one-third of a (black) whole explaining my tripolar tendencies & eternal melancholy II. Warm Spite when what-goes-around-never-comes-around when circle segments cease to circulate (find…

What I Can’t Say at My Neighbor’s Party Looking at a Map of the United States Scott T. Starbuck Texas is, and always has always been, an upside down shark eating Mexico. Florida is a phallic reminder of how the nation got screwed – twice. And who can forget Louisiana getting the boot during Katrina…