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    ISSUE 35

    POETRY Sorrow by Megan Pinto Theodor Adorno in Los Angeles, 1941 by Grace Alvino Brusque Recital by Christopher Brean Murray I am the grass of the wind alley by Sarah…

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  • UNDERSTANDING HEAVY METAL by W. Todd Kaneko

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    W. Todd Kaneko
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    Begin with a savage cry,                                                         a spray of cardinals             gouting gorgeous             from gut to tonsil,                                                         from a boy’s lips, glossed in crimson & fire—                                                         teen angst dashed by             bat wings, mouthfuls             of graveyard sugar,                                                         bruise shine & stars— in leather & choke chain,                                                         a boy can separate into             curses a man will one day             remember…

  • MISSION CREEP by Jeffrey Morgan

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    Jeffrey Morgan
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    How a groove is a prayer for a needle and a hollow is a prayer for birds, how music fills a space and makes you aware of emptiness, somewhere my brother is not where my brother is supposed to be. I tell the sky how and the sky replies in sunlight on the river meaning…

  • LETTER TO YASHA IN MY THIRD PERIOD AP LANG CLASS MORNING AFTER THAT GIRL SHE LIKES BLOCKED HER ON INSTAGRAM by Mamie Morgan

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    Mamie Morgan
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    There must be something that can fix me, you say, but in sixteen years nothing has. Lexapro, Oleptro, Thiopropazate. Eighth grade, Hal Stoddard chased me into the Rosewood Lane cul­-de­-sac by the butt­ end of his BB gun yelling, C’mon piggy­piggy, open up you whale, while I recited every word that had ever made me…

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