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SCROLL DOWN FOR NEW WRITING BY Jack Morgan ! Elizabeth Terrazas ! Lukas Champagne ! Alisa Heinzman ! John Kusper !

NEXT MONTH GUEST CURATOR Trevor Calvert!

John Kusper

CELESTIAL SUBWAY (SILENT SYMPHONY)

Lit by the synaptic flicker of a nervous lantern

Void imbued by an osmosis of shadow into light.

Alisa Heinzman

IN YARDS

1.
The light withdrawn to the fence base. A shadow the shape of your yellow chair. There is no chair but you reach both ways in your yellow shirt and pretend to swim the backstroke.

Jack Morgan

From The Haunting of Ninja Town

JEOPARDY

I look into the mirror
and don’t turn myself
on anymore.

Elizabeth Terrazas

Poem Object

wonder if rain and ghosts come into this world

very often

too many pictures and dances to cement

every one of them

takes me back when I was

now, is it true, Joe?

say it isn’t so joe, a chrysanthemum

a piano

speak of a time

when    she knew the answer

not always

to the kernel      I must say

not always this

way-slow down         let’s talk about it: sit

in this chair: let’s say what

let’s say:  where

would it go without me   what would the shoes say?

What are now prayers read

In Catholic school     fathom beyond

Victim     beyond the past

Is prosperity

We celebrate our unusual manner

Of speaking and writing      look I see no

I see know way to–

NEARLY

If my jaw were loose I would speak in third person. I would be an actress.

Lukas Champagne

HER TRIUMPH

I sat out and watched the weather systems pass, ordinarily there were four or five of these like accelerated photography each day.  It was an island about four miles off the coast of Maine; and I’d gone there to write in a big house with rotted ceilings and newspaper lampshades.  The house was situated in the apex of a cove

Happening!!!

Happy Day +V.