A Celebrity Couple Divorces On TV
“The couple looks on, a pair of eyes / melting like discarded chocolate, // furtive.”
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Ortolan, Drowning
“Something low and feathery // would rise from his throat as / if he had choked on a bird and that bird”
The 613 Mitzvot and Other Safeguards Against Our Baser Instincts
“to redeem our tarnished souls, updating instantly, adapting in this age / of gratification with a rattle like the sages rolling in their / graves,”
Phylogeny
“Praise God for steam, its generosity / and blur, for the dark nest, / of hair pulped on the shower wall.”
The Killing
“It crosses / a creek hight with spring rain, dying leaves / pulled from
the bank– the dark set in / heavy as an eyelid.”
Gender Reveal Ceremony
“No harm will come to the toad / in this ceremony. but also no kisses.”
Portrait of a Lady
By Linden Smith
“What she’d been calling neurobehavioral and / pathophysiological, was now something made of / mildew and dogshit.”
where time dips & meets horizon
By Ela Kini
“masked in wilting flowers, the face is not a face but a skull unfinished.”