"Mother Dragon" by Samara Garfinkle
“In this kind of business, all your flowers are like your children.” —Tamey Lau I. At worlds and Miles’ End, There lives the Mother...
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Dec 3, 20221 min read
"Bus stop on the corner of Queen Mary" by Louis Piette
The will of God on bright blue as I wait to become. Here He is. On me, in me, flushing yellow on my skin. On all of us – waiting,...
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Dec 3, 20221 min read
"Heir to the Night" by Jerome Ramcharitar
The night deepens in its newest song. Heat has dissolved, its breaths now long, all in the acquisition of a shade— but humid as a swamp,...
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Dec 3, 20221 min read
"Captivity" by Carolyne Van Der Meer
I look at you, measuring whether I’m fearful your dark eye darting your unease, wildness here in this basement room my refuge, where you...
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Dec 3, 20221 min read
"Randy Refuses to Go to Town" by Jacalyn den Haan
He wouldn’t take her to the city. He would keep her safe beside himself, in his arms. Dead but still singing. On his peeling doorstep,...
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Dec 3, 20221 min read
"Montreal in the Summertime" and "Tahiti Fusion" by Katie Cossette
Montreal in the Summertime Câlice, c’est chaud en tabarnak… So where are you two from? Canada… Pas d’argent, besoin manger… If Legault...
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May 4, 20212 min read
"The Minotaur Mind" by Samara Garfinkle
Winding and twisting, this sinewy labyrinth listlessly folds in on itself, a maze-like bud that opens fearfully to the footfalls of man,...
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May 4, 20211 min read
"Map" by Willow Loveday Little
A maze mouths a non-linear A to B, a linguistic start To end but a labyrinth spirals inward ad infinitum In effect unicursal as a whorl...
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May 3, 20211 min read
"Sir Arthur Evans" by Matthew Rettino
All my paths have led to Knossos: to this site, this stretch of soil. With trowel and brush I sculpt the palace, a labyrinth of toil, the...
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May 3, 20211 min read
Two Poems by Ilona Martonfi
Guernica The village's been here, here where we're standing by the Urdaibai estuary inscribed in the sand of skulls Octavio Vázquez's...
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May 3, 20211 min read
"Thunderclouds Wear a Cloak" and "Even Crows" by Danielle Wong
Thunderclouds Wear a Cloak Thunderclouds can follow people indoors invisible to all but the person they follow Even Crows The crow caws...
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May 3, 20211 min read
"Across the Crops" by Tamara Nazywalskyj
Across the Crops here comes sunday brunch and i romanticize the whole thing stretching it like bubble gum out of my mouth and around my...
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May 3, 20211 min read
"On An Island" by Derek Godin
I see evidence of a master builder in your bed of cypress branches, your pillow of interlaced swan feathers. Sorrow has not hindered your...
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May 3, 20212 min read
"The Gilded Cage" by Devon Gallant
You can walk in a line and still be lost. This is the lesson you are here to learn. Caught in a widdendream you cannot leave, hoof...
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May 3, 20211 min read
"Prometheus" by Mirabel
You were innocent, wanting fire for livelihood. Licked you charred, didn't it feel liquor-sweet, the waste it made? You're paying for it...
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May 3, 20211 min read
"Perseus" by John William Wither
the scream is the voice gone raw and can only be from the Minotaur William John Wither is a speculative fiction writer living in...
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May 3, 20212 min read
"Ariadne" by Jerome Ramcharitar
My mother spoke a dark language in secret. Her syllables wove my first memories. Just as my mother died, she whispered her last words...
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May 3, 20213 min read
"Daedaliana" by James Dunnigan
the walls are to be thirty cubits high for three hundred cubits of length fifty the width—the animal inside half bull bull of a man born...
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May 3, 20212 min read
"White Sail/Black Sail" by George Slobodzian
(Aegeus' Lament—as performed by the ghost of Peter O’Toole) Do not loosen the bulging mouth of the wineskin until you have reached the...
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Dec 29, 20201 min read
Sand by Jerome Ramcharitar
1. Dreams deep enough have an infinite echo, as if the time within them borrows from other lives, or that the forgotten worlds between...
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