Why I Like “My Name” by cm ellis
Hello, lovelies! I wandered through Moist Poetry Journal's Queer Environment special issue to find today's beauty: "My Name" by cm ellis. All three of ellis's poems are well worth reading,…
Why I Like “First Dance” by Frances Klein
"First Dance", published in Full Mood Magazine, Mood #3, Melomania: https://www.fullmoodmag.com/first-dance The world of this poem is immediately present and intimate. I stand in the kitchen with the narrator, the…
Talk to me about the letter H
Here is unshaped breath. Can I rename this sleeping air? This sound is an ocean, older than voice. It still hisses from unsophisticated throats. You mistake my interest in phonetics.…
Slow download over a weak open WiFi connection
Curtain flicker: your eyes, no—my eyes, nighttime windows: women walking half-naked back-lit big screen TV, what am I watching? No one made a Netflix special of your smile, I blink…
Premonitions arrive at my house, with and without invitations
The flyers that are delivered despite the "No Junk Mail" sticker on my mailbox are an omen. If there's a truth that everyone should know, it's sold at Canadian Tire,…