by Megan Norman
I’m well accustomed to picking the eyes of dolls. It seems.
The thread is so tempting. Even though it’s often a
mess underneath my fingernails, that are so rotten.
There are these gold dolls formed from an
angelic mold. Sometimes I glue on black black
wings. From dead crows.
by Russell Jaffe
Now look:
everyone took turns to talk, there are black braches, the birch bark tears quickly
a______like an envelope
It isn’t a lying, shirtless night, and there aren’t crickets
it’s cold
the surf melodies a scatter in leaves
a_____dead ladybugs salt the sand. There’s sand in my dinner and the salt tastes like a dead ocean. _
Russell Jaffe teaches English at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, IA and holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia College in Chicago. His poems have appeared in Shampoo, MiPOesias, The Portland Review, Spooky Boyfriend, Writer’s Bloc, and others. Additionally, he writes a hot sauce review blog called Good Hurts.
by Alan Britt
The squawk of the trumpet
muffled by generations of slavery.
Survival rate
wasn’t so good.
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