Issue 117: 03 September 2020

¡Despierta!

By Ada Ardére    She lies rotting in saltwater that thrashes about white resorts that in their time and in their place drown out her voice as it would otherwise be heard begging, pleading, screaming for the lives of her children as they sit in wards without power, diabetic comas consuming the elderly and children […]

75th Remembrance Poem

By Michel Steven Krug   Another night, so far beyond famished, the stubby pencil rescued from gravel sharpened by secret pebbles to write about the ingredients of normalcy. Ilona from Budapest narrates: two cups of flour, 3/4 cup sugar, an egg or two (depends on size), a finger of baking powder, touch of vanilla, crushed […]

my body, my choice

By Kitty Anarchy   jesus said? jesus is dead. jesus don’t have what’s between our legs our cavities ovaries fallopian tubes uterus cervix not just vagina! could you even name the parts tucked deep inside us? jesus’ mary magdalene history erased resurrected in us now who’s two-faced men preach and give mandates not to have […]

Eulogy for the Unfriended

By Jon Wesick   We gather to mourn the loss of Alice stroking her brown-and-white Saint Bernard, Barbara embracing her acoustic guitar, Cheryl who tipsy on Chianti flirted with me at Don’s going-away dinner, Roberta who toured Chinese Zen temples, Brad who worked nonviolence into his martial arts when evicting drunks from a topless bar, […]