Coyote Poem #2
“balance the worker’s wailing mother / against the motorist’s (coyote // howling in the distance)”
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LOVERS ON FIRE IN A BOAT
“the many varieties of violence, platters of soft // and blue violence, vintage violence.”
Mom Wants Things
By Binh Tang
“untamed, and dusk engulfed in their eyes, / like fireworks, like burning choppers in the sky”
Amber Beacon Tower
By Tiffany Wu
“our island’s favorite ghost is a / tower by the sea. men are afraid of the / woman in white stalking the shores, / shells uncracked and gleaming under her feet”
August
“Clad in a green vest and khaki shorts, he unshells / boiled groundnuts, his girlfriend draped in an orange dera // yells politely to the helpers,”
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“until-the-storm-abated-and-you-navigated-your-cursory-ship.net / mickey-mouse-glove-or-arrow-shaped.gov / to-the-object.org”
Deadlines: December & January 2025
Every middle of the month: new deadlines, new contests, and new opportunities for your work to find its audience. Here is a roundup of ten submission opportunities with deadlines in the next two months.
Science
“the child, saying goodbye to his dying / grandfather, asks, but couldn’t there be a miracle?”
Bug-out Bag
“We left behind the hatchet / and maps and brought instead bread, wine, cheese, and the strange joy / of no hope.”