UNITY AND DIVERSITY What’s time between us? Warp, wrinkle, the steady ticking of my kitchen clock. Electromagnetism runs to infinity a spectrum of paths, of highs and lows invisible, not without form and void. We are two souls, irreconcilable threads rising and falling in waves regular like the mindful breath. The lazy eye sees only […]
Joshua Levy | MY WIFE TEACHES ME TO DANCE
MY WIFE TEACHES ME TO DANCE When you teach me to dance I begin to notice fire dancing with wind, a fish with water, a car with colours in the traffic lights. When you teach me to dance I begin to see gravity dancing with a basketball, a comedian with a crowd’s laughter, the peanut […]
Stephanie Bolster | NOW
NOW Four months on a ship, 580 students, a famous poet, rough seas, rough seasons, assaults, the Amazon, that’s how the world is now, the vast world so small it breaks the heart that one could see it all. There remain in valleys or on hills possibly tribes as yet undiscovered, whatever that means. We […]
Jami Macarty | WHO THE STRUMMER
WHO THE STRUMMER I am two women who live in parallel universes trying to break and re-create all bonds. She is aware of me and I, her but our communication a febrile ogdoad a nadir of loneliness. This blood-webbing capable of rescue yet every hour wraiths nicker scattershot across irradiated sand. I’m tidal. She’s trickling, […]
Ilona Martonfi | PUPA
PUPA No, the dolls whisper. Patched monologues. Skip rope chants. Playing tag. Playing marbles. I came here one year ago. Bombed stone houses. Village of refugees. I only think about the dolls. I made one looking like my mother. Slipping under my skin. In the mirror I see her: she is there, in my body. […]
Adèle Barclay | OBVIOUSLY A SHITTY DREAM
OBVIOUSLY A SHITTY DREAM We’re at your wedding to alcoholism the invitation features so many photos of your face framed by branches I think you are getting married to a tree I enter the banquet hall and Vincent the MC makes me change into a stretchy fuchsia dress gives me a lollipop I’m sexy and […]