Liar’s Haiku


︎︎︎ Meredith Stisser

︎ May 22, 2025

“I really love you
It’s not just about the sex”
I say, bent over










Meredith Stisser is an artist from New England based in Truckee, California.

Also by Meredith: Nesting





After The Fly


︎︎︎ Cletus Crow

︎ May 21, 2025

love wields a shotgun
and isn't afraid to blow your head off
if you're too far gone
he is half man half green ooze
great at sex though
i am also some monster thing
kiss my left mandible
let me pollinate her moist tulips
i'm also human
she forgets that often enough
feeds me fingernails
but pokes holes in the plastic jar
stars are not really stars
















Cletus Crow is a poet.

Also by Cletus: Pretty Ones





c’mere


︎︎︎ Joelle Milman

︎ May 20, 2025

i smelled like skin and it smelled
like you and i missed
you because you smelled
like skin










Joelle Milman is a writer in the eastern foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.





Wonderful seedless lemons are free


︎︎︎ Montana James Thomas

︎ May 13, 2025

The lawn is cut and the bees all panic, that is to say, it is a perfectly normal morning. And in the afternoon, the swans float and snort in still waters. And when night falls, the crickets come, hollering as always, as always, as always — a quiet trash fire in the ruins of Londinium, a broxy stew for sale on the corner of Broadway and 49th, a toothache.













Montana James Thomas lives and writes in New York City. He is the author of POMERANIAN (Dirt Child, 2023) and Concerning the Dinner (2024). His poems can be found in Forever Magazine, Hanging Loose Magazine, and Blush Lit Journal, among others.





The Fool


︎︎︎ Drew Mosman

︎ May 12, 2025

In March, I built you a bench,
cedar, with two short legs and a long body.
It held books, your cigarettes, my pants.
In May, you burnt my bench,
you used lighter fluid and matches.
In June, I wrote honestly about you for the first time,
the words come easily now.
In January, I told you about God,
something that I now regret.












Drew Mosman is a writer and carpenter in Washington State.

Also by Drew: Knight of Wands