Elegy for the Ignorance of Nudity Originally published in Bateau Literary Magazine Kristina Martino __________ To put things in perspective, the cosmos is commonplace,comprising a similar politics of implosions and cease-fires and expansion. As such, the earth is a placard that defaces the grandscale and I live there and so…
Read MoreThe Problem With Amy Winehouse John Vieira __________ Some days I find myselfmissing everyone I’veever known, I’m sorry.I offer them my mistakesas recompense.An indicator of how hardyou were hitis not necessarilythe colors of your bruise.like two spread legspointing to the future,there are many waysto be broken says the bone. __________…
Read MoreThis Morning Jess Williard __________ Muffled grind of snow plows, squirrels chirpingof discovered warmth in the walls of the house. White-packed lawns have already inflatedthe day. How open it is patterned to be filled in with cold light. How without repose. What thingsI could scare enough to crawl inside me.…
Read MoreAn Exercise in Staring at the Ceiling and Contemplating Divorce P.L. Sanchez __________ Focus on the fan. Watch the blades, spinning in circles. They want us to believe they’re an army. Smart. We know it’s a covert operation, a five-blade job. Those blades can spin, yes, they can. Focus on…
Read MoreJen Karetnick __________ Marching Band Perp Walk You never forget the way you’re taught to tread: Gaze straight ahead. Limbs on alert. Feet barely lifted, a watery shuffle. Toe to heel, toe to heel, a needle through the arch, threading the seams of the path in front of you like…
Read MoreWilliam Brown __________ Monarchs I wanted to dust their beating wings, douse them in alcohol, press into paper, onto toothpicks stabbed in foam. But when I arrive, plastic bag tied to a stick, they ignite the hush of alfalfa, pillage the flower’s throats like boys back home who suck the…
Read MoreCall the Carmelites Jane V. Blunschi __________ I started calling the Carmelite monastery with prayer requests when I was twenty-four years old. I knew about the nuns because the woman I was involved with advised me to call them when I was fearful, and I was fearful most of the…
Read MoreBoudin 2019: Winter Edition Fiction “My Plastic Dreams” by Mark Budman “A Bad Seed” by A.I. Chow “A Few Things Before Coffee” by Nicholas John-Francis Claro “No Sweeter Fat” by Jess E. Jelsma “Girl Who Came Guns aBlazin’” by Kennedy Dawn Stearns Poetry “For A Moment” & “The Woman in…
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