Ellen West

—Is it bitter? Does her soul / tell her / that she was an idiot ever to think / anything / material wholly could satisfy? More

Prologue

I was immortal in my ability to be knocked down / and spread myself out to take the punch again. / In this sense I am still a mother.… More

domina Un/blued

The body took paths through waste-land woods / followed her back to the apartment / Her body / hid from its parents / Forgot its sisters / Bathed /… More

Two Poems by Wendy Xu

Unrested we said to others to leave / us pleased, not far along our track, still much // we want, half the slower good death / of cities too… More

from Aw Heck Land

I don’t mean that vocabulary is arbitrary, but rather that artistic intent can manifest itself—can thrive, even—in the absence of an infinitude of possibilities, in the absence of total… More

Sea of Tranquility

No one refrains from repeating the gesture forever. / New York as seen from a plane / Writing its name in the sky. / What once appeared to be… More