Poetry: Three Poems by Chen Chen
“& your cum’s cooling too fast on my thigh / & your cum-sigh’s the hit single me / & my cumming replay while you’re away”
Poetry: “SAVAGE or BURMESE PYGMALION” by Mandy Moe Pwint Tu
“I’m Eliza Doolittle, coughing out The rain in Spain stays mainly / in the plain.”
Poetry: “PYRE OF A VANISHING PLANET” by Ruben Quesada
“from a torrent like a lion's roaring on a distant coast / as a breeze steals our breath away”
Poetry: “Burning Haibun for a Half-Life” and “Catalog of Witness” by Kay E. Bancroft
“Today, my Google search history includes what is the half-life of the human body? I came up emptier than I began.”
Poetry: “July 18th” by Julián Martinez
“Today is Pyramids Day according to a Redditor on the Frank Ocean subreddit / because the 199th day at 3:31am is the calendar year’s equivalent of when the / beat switches in that song”
Poetry: “Puberty II” by SG Huerta
“my first period at age 10; / I woke up on my dad’s couch; / blood on my thighs; / 5am in the feminine hygiene aisle, / foreign to us both”
Poetry: “The Fruit Picker Basket, Too Heavy for the Child to Use, and Beginning to Rust” by Willow James Claire
“This isn’t witness, that radical act;”