mrs. maybe

 

Elisabeth Beasley - KENOSIS

Overeager undereater, humility's not a game
but destroys the enmity of my bid.
Die out this compartment, the utter container
fits still the windowpane, a gristly sleeve
from shoulderblade to fingerbone, its ring of jade
sits square, sits square
for fears it fears.

My breath smells sweet at nil, but now
the copper spigot mans my air.
Sour shouts the copper spout, this profit
is deadening encomium, dead
everything I touch, everything dead
Midassing the minus of minus.

For Hell's sake, Heaven would be
invisible, divisible, dividable, divine.
Negative mirrors making one, they merge as air.

 
   

Issue Two

Bill Luoma
Alli Warren
Sawako Nakayasu
Catherine Meng
Elisabeth Beasley
James Shea
Logan Ryan Smith
Daniel Ostmann
Cynthia Sailers
Joseph Massey & Jess Mynes
Genevieve Kaplan
Erin Morrill
Brandon Shimoda
Andrew Kenower
Dorothea Lasky
Christopher DeWeese
Trevor Calvert
Claire Becker
Jessica Baron
Nathan Hoks