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Read MoreBra Lola Willis __________ I turn the remains in my grieving fingers, black satin thinning, dotted by tiny specks of pink lint. He outlived the pronouns you tossed into the mouth of the beast along with the last scratches of your identity: Army-green jacket, bruised guitar, scarf paint-stained, broken phone—what…
Read MoreQueer Pursuits, Lights the Moon to Spite the Sun, & Mood 48 Is A Gay One Bradley David Waters __________ Queer Pursuits You know that grumbling truck The one with scowling headlights and cow-catcher grill You’ll never catch me I say Pinned in its radiator …
Read MoreLazarus & The First Books They Burned Francis Waguespack __________ LazarusThe morning after the floodwaters recede, my neighbor’s chickens are loose on our street, red hens stepping gingerly over debris, unexpectedly dignified. The elder next door, Ms. Josephine, calls out from her porch: “They survived! Look at them struuuuuuuttin!” Her voice carries across the mud-slick…
Read MoreWolf Moon, 1986 & Blood Moon, 2025 Daniel Nathan Terry __________ Wolf Moon, 1986 There is little a lonely boy will refuse. Littlehe’ll protect. Almost nothing he’ll turn down. Kisses alone he’ll withhold. Only girls kiss boys. I knewwhy other boys turned my head each time I tried to show them love. Wasn’t gay to…
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Read MoreFCA Doughnuts Mike Piero __________ Suggestive donuts, purified bottled water, and coffeefor the lanky, balding Mr. Burnes marked that spaceof early morning fellowship my freshman year of highschool where I—and a few others, I suspect—workedto pray our nearly already silent gay away. In high school trailers of desert air and…
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