Issue 36: 17 Aug 2017

How to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich

By Maggie Downs   Gather your ingredients. You’ll need peanut butter, jelly, the bread of your choice, and a clean, sharp knife. Spread peanut butter evenly onto one side of the bread using your knife. Acknowledge the fact that the winner of our constitutionally legitimate but antiquated electoral process is a person who threatens democracy […]

lavender:

By Lily Moody Pink or blue When our daughters are taught to hold their tongues and our sons are taught to hold their tears, when all we want to do is scream and sob. Pink or blue When dolls and toy trucks, bows and baseball gloves are used as barriers to separate us, when femininity […]

Human fatigue

By Eduardo Escalante 1. close into symbols The city looked full artery of Santiago choked with cars a tatted man was standing in front of a tree Affirmed to a symbol in this street there was no crosswalk his body jumped It seemed 3d drawing We can leave we can look the tattoo is the […]

Standing Rock, 2016

By Marydale Stewart I sent my heart, that figurative muscle, that metaphor, that emblem, to go in my stead to Standing Rock where my feet have never known the steady earth, that certain sky, the remembered places the wind has been, where I’ve never known another living being as my own, where the people came […]