TINIEST FLIGHT OF SPEECH

By Stacey Tran

I cough the sun out of its sky. Letters of the alphabet hurt toward the end. Can we go on without
pronouns? There are at least five ways to say …

I know what I think, and so I tell someone

By Genevieve Kaplan

Knowing drifting is a process both expected and un-, some

types of animals include lizards, include elephants, include

an amount of pre-thinking to remember that sound travels freely

through an …

Tamiami Trail

By Carmella de los Angeles Guiol

Demon Hymnal

By Phillip Aijian

It’s not as thin as one might think, though
there is only one version, and each copy
features only the words—no music.

In a brief moment of inspiration, Lucifer
himself penned …

FUTURA FREE

By Shayla Lawson

Variations on a Theme from Folklore

By Sarah Cohen

I.
The traveler came to a meeting of roads.
Each was marked with prophesy,
marked with loss.

The traveler chose the middle road.

II.
First road: you will give up from hunger …

Morning Rush

By Jed Myers

Now we’re fissioned—it releases
enough desire to fuel the empire.
That’s my smudged vision on this

frost-fogged, steamed street
at night’s end in these bright overhead
cones and sweeping twin beams.

We …

CAFÉ ARABICA

By Oscar Mancinas

Gaze

By Sasha Banks

Because I could not pull the homesickness
from my clothes with all my teeth,
the skins of foreign cloth dead in my mouth,
I am the savage who tried to …

She said.

By Jennifer Coard

Can I buy a cigarette from you?
she asked.
I paused.
I just wanted coffee.
The weekend commute had been particularly suburban.

She looked like she was going to a …

Descendent

By Amy Shimshon-Santo

darling. beloved. come closer.
I hold history’s hand in mine, an old friend
we walk together along the paved zanja madre
a river of dirt and water. small tribes of …

Ahwahnee Hills Regional Park

By Ronald Dzerigian

Ahwahnee means deep grassy valley & I’d heard

that, just over one hundred years before this one,
miners had pushed the Miwok down into the tall

reeds. Today, the meadow (that …