POETRY: GLOBAL MALAISE

MOTH; OR HOW I CAME TO BE WITH YOU AGAIN by Thomas Heise

— I remember red velvet wallpaper shaped with concentric circles which when focused upon seemed to spiral and thought this is a sign of my volition, my ability to move things, and this, I remember thinking, would grow stronger in the coming years I feared —

RUMORS OF WARS by Ian Demsky

Lt. Cribbin applied to attend a suicide bombing class

held in Mexico. This training is needed

3AM SONGS by Erica Weitzman

self shot in the gut for a gauntlet of scatter

as a tautened caught cut-and-run up the down ladder;

POWER GRAB by Jeff Martin

Damning others as he goes

HARVARD by Brad Liening

Another really good school though

is Yale, and don't forget about Princeton.

THE MOST VIOLENT PART by Melissa Howard

paper/ my head is crinkled paper & cigarette butts & i watch your mouth open & close like a fish/ with a gulp like a red & orange fish/ what do you get when you kiss a boy you get enough germs to catch

A HUNDRED THROATS, A CARDINAL POINT by Matthew Johnstone

Thing inside living thing,  Fish in tin. 

Synecdochic tube, Torso, Sifting

ropy pieces of cathedral.    

PROMOTIONAL CONSIDERATION PAID FOR BY by Dennis Mahagin

HVAC repair techs, by black market 

baby brokers in Krung Thep, their guttural

lines of talk, John Walsh lurking with taser 

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