Dual Shrub Mountain


︎︎︎ Vivi Hayes

︎ Sept 10, 2024

The loutish dauphin waltzes downcourt
The bastard emerges, subdues his mirth
Sovereign over the CD store
Phone line tethered to wall, usurped
by the tutor

The brothers assume the quadrille
Who is this socky person anyway?
Keep your cap on, consummation
Crash course in
polite conversation

Magnetism heart line polarity
Kiss me into zest!
The queen consort cheerleads
The clergy crosses the moat
to play the radical nobility
but the bus breaks down

I don’t care where they get off,
I don’t like it like this
























Vivi Hayes is a writer from Atlanta and the associate editor of  Perfectly Imperfect Newsletter. Her work has appeared in ExPat Press, No More Prostitutes, and elsewhere. vivihayes.net





We’re Among Friends


︎︎︎ Francine W. DeKidd

︎ Sept 6, 2024

Lurching serpents
worm or nematode on coffee
cups overflowing I slip
cracking open my skull and lighting
my smoke in red-brown
puddles on the tiled
surface of Mars.
Aliens are real and walk
among you, I would like to go home














Francine W. DeKidd is a poet currently working as an evolutionary biologist in Miami, Florida.





Function


︎︎︎ Cletus Crow

︎ Aug 29, 2024

you bought man sized heels
for drag you said

red white hustler brand

i've worn them
to scrap fungus off the ceiling









Cletus Crow is a poet. His debut full-length collection, Phallic Symbols, is available from Pig Roast Publishing.





Lemon


︎︎︎ Ivy Lockhart

︎ Aug 26, 2024

lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon melon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon i don’t think i can be your friend anymore lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon lemon

Ivy Lockhart is a poet and artist based in Boston, Massachusetts and Brooklyn, New York. Her writing has been published in Currents Magazine and Swamp Spit.  





Romance


︎︎︎ Nikolay Shargorodsky

︎ Aug 24, 2024

fitness gives way to energy
energy gives way to work
work gives way to meaning
meaning gives way to romance

repetition gives way to memory
memory gives way to excellence
excellence gives way to love
love gives way to romance

change gives way to adaptation
adaptation gives way to normalcy
normalcy gives way to health
health gives way to romance

communication gives way to community
community gives way to establishment
establishment gives way to nobility
nobility gives way to romance

discipline gives way to stasis
stasis gives way to electricity
electricity gives way to novelty
novelty gives way to romance





























Nikolay Shargorodsky (Aug. 17th, 1992 — Jan. 21st, 2022) was a writer, poet, and research technician in Brooklyn, New York. His poetry appeared in the McGill Daily and his play ‘The Telegram’ was performed by the Douglas Theatre Company at McGill University.

You can read more of his poems in Issue 2 and here. ♥