Volume 12
March 2024 - April 2024
“i’d be a pear because i’m fanciful entertainment. i’m the garnish to your main course. won’t you feast your eyes upon me?”
“but you still can’t solve your grandmother’s anger without fluoxetine. work harder on that.”
— Siena Ho, a comprehensive guide to growing pains
“Shame and doubt are the milk and flour. I am the recipe. There are never any (edible) pancakes.”
“When Emma was little, the excitement of the marketplace outweighed the strangers’ inappropriate comments. She ignored them but never forgot them.”
“as my own breath sways around my neck a threadbare noose”
“9. Lie down & Imagine a blue dewdrop dissolving into your entire inner being”
— Yuan Changming, 10 Shortcuts to Immortality/Eternalization
“How did you get so good at manicures? You should volunteer to do them in a women’s prison. What made you say that, Mom? I feel like I’m locked in here.”
“Somehow I thought that once the reaper came and disconnected your soul from its fleshly wrapper, you were done with all that carnal nonsense.”
“mostly i want to be left alone as much as i want to be spoken to. i want the string of dialogue to be audible anywhere outside my mind.”
“Letting the red hot embers in my mind cool if only for a moment. This is a meditation on love: a way to leave the world less broken than I found it.”
“I'm learning to notice your legs after the war in vain”
“my mouth is always kept open, frozen Stuck in a moment of shock from the first.”
“in autumn frost a rowhouse in freight horn i remember”
—Thomas Whittaker, The Only Faith Based Methadone Clinic In America