A Book About Architecture


︎︎︎ Steve Gergley

︎ July 16, 2025

I read a book about architecture. It was filled with many beautiful pictures of spike-like buildings and box-shaped houses. Thin lines pointing to various parts of each structure connected to complex words like dormer, cupola, pilaster, and buttress. I didn't understand any of it. My eyes began to vibrate. A terrible and nameless fear crushed the hairless crown of my skull. I jammed the book into a storm drain and shuffled back to the forest very quickly. 














Steve Gergley is the author of a bunch of books and a lot of weird writings of an indeterminate nature. He's also the editor of scaffold literary magazine.





Out There


︎︎︎ Michael Charles Hansford

︎ July 15, 2025

There are no words
There is nothing left
There is a bright white light
But far away
Out there
Is a land of milk and honey
A cathedral of love
There lies a body of water that sometimes freezes
In there
Angels pluck feathers from their wings
There is a sound of overwhelming serenity
There is an innocence untouched
Out there
Alone
We are safe



Michael Charles Hansford is a musician and writer based in Montreal, Canada. 





MANY THINGS DEPEND


︎︎︎ Ari Lisner

︎ July 14, 2025

I took the winter to play detective and skincare felt impossible. So I summoned the little gay guy that surely lives in everyone for my grindset, to measure out life in protein scoops, to join men’s ranks and excavate dead lessons. I sunk! Sunk so far beyond that the only thing epic became the lack, the chronic dissatisfaction pendulum swung, and I was Sylvia with my phone, texting everyone: the next thing will save me. I decided I wanted a son, as in a boy, to stare at. I do not want to be leveraging each other, or to play dumb games for dumb prizes. Yet a keychain almost broke us, in the same way that California girls always threaten to return home.



Ari Lisner is a poet, journalist, and researcher in New York City. 







I’m on the Spiral Staircase


︎︎︎ Zachary Swezy

︎ July 12, 2025

machine, making my way to you.










Zachary Swezy is a writer based in Chicago. 

Also by Zachary: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls





Love Poem


︎︎︎ Bernard Cohen

︎ July 10, 2025

You have to pivot to
Video to get to
The heart of it
Do we connect
My Rothschild
Are you leaning












Bernard Cohen is an author based in New York City. He co-edits the online publication Charm School with his friend Vivi Hayes.

Also by Bernard: WET BULB 2