Song Ghost & Ghost Song Oliver Smith After a performance by Sharon Gal at Xposed Club/University of Gloucestershire on 8thDecember 2017   SONG GHOST   Her iron talons strike white noise from stone: Breath creaks And a single note scratches like sand In an oyster accreting a nacreous sheen. She speaks of silent seas lost…

Where Astrology Ends John Sibley Williams   Thank god the stars are not your daughters anymore. & the wise man chained to a stone hacked apart, restored, just to be eaten again for bringing us fire no longer looks like your grandfather. After twelve hours in the airless factory your town was built around, the…

Two Poems Emily Stoddard   An attempt to convey how uncomfortable the word “kingdom” makes me My messiah hung on the cross for three weeks, and when his blood emptied, they slaughtered calves to replenish the effort. My messiah has a body I can taste, and it tastes like a stamp from an exotic island….

Blackout Andrea Sherwood   I lived a year in a small black box under a barbershop some nights not even an inch of moonshine would sit on the windowsill the room                                purgatory with no objects no thing save the thick dark dark dark large dark screaming three a.m. why aren’t you sleeping are you…

Deadbeat Sara Moore Wagner   Our father goes into the forest and loses himself, climbs the nearest tree when night finds him too tired to carry on. Our father climbs the tree because he is afraid of the earth, and me with this face like wilds— Don’t feed him when he comes shaky to your…