Category: Issue 31
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RETURNING TO PRAYER by Satya Dash
The bulb glows amber on the roof like an orange I have always wanted to eat but felt I didn’t deserve to—this roof where I had my first kiss, not knowing with such a touch, my lips would slip into a realm of thirst I was told by my parents to never wander into.…
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WOMEN’S LIT by Anemone Beaulier
On the cover, another girl turns from us, hair furled so we might appraise her neck’s arc, shoulder-blades like scythes beneath her skin: so young, so thin. We know from the first she’s damaged: her pulse doesn’t quicken at the flight of a wren from a palo verde dropping yellow blossoms beside the pool. She…
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SOMETIMES, WHEN I TRY TO TYPE WORLD by Priscilla Wathington
SOMETIMES, WHEN I TRY TO TYPE WORLD I type wolf. As in: The sun is setting over my part of the wolf right now. As in: Anywhere in the wolf but here. What I know is the old home is always playing her best hits: again I’m in that pink room listening to…