One: In the beginning, their mistress crouched down and smacked her palms against her knees. Her lips would part slightly, and she’d place the tip of her tongue just behind her front teeth, with the sides touching the roof of
FROM You Must Always Feed from the Bodies
o most gifted eye do not see the banality of this world see only what grace lent in unwise pegasus all eight wings of the seraphim avenge our grief what is left what i believe a skull falls to earth i carry it
Bone Requires Bone #22-24
#22 the last material of the last thunderstorm will come from a tantrum from the male half of a god that thought initially about benevolently bowing out of existence whispering a syllable of the answer & then could not help
Touch
Noah Ross is an East Bay bookseller, ambient musician, author of Swell (forthcoming from Otis Books/Seismicity Editions), and editor of the new platform bМ_st: a journal of queer forms & affects.
Gash Chorus
at first we called their names madness doesn’t want to keep staring at the wall to reduce it a low heat fingers boil up too shaking isn’t sexy tracing scar lines on whose property addled upper lip touch to the
Incantation for Choosing
Woke early beige bedroom autoclave came straddling my palm ghost-fingered against the wall. Pinning my heart against my life and smiling at the rope burn. There is so much ` I want to tell you: about the weather of bygone
Tartarus Appears in a Catholic Middle School
1. Start at Our Lady’s gazebo, where all curse words are learned and saint cards are traded like baseball heroes. I give up three St. Lucy’s for a shiny St. Cecilia. I want harps and wings on my side, I
Sweet Sorrow
There are molecules in her bonesin love with auto-mitosis. Phosphate lips gritagainst teeth to pull outher soul, still healing; / stones don’t divide,but damn, they’ll try anyways she says, pressing a goodnightonto my tongue. Anastasia Jill (Anna Keeler) is a
Self Portrait as Gorgon
Joseph Dante lives in Plantation, Florida with his husband and two cats. His work has been featured in Permafrost, South Florida Poetry Journal, The Rumpus, PANK, Corium, and elsewhere. He was a finalist for the 2016 Lascaux Prize for Poetry.
Sibling Agony
I can not tolerate her huckleberry warmth, and that she piles on the mascara to draw attention to her eyes. I am troubled she flosses in the living room, and spend hours envisioning where the particles of rank debris, once