ISSUE 80 | SEP 2017

BLOOD AND MILK

the love a cow feels - so that it will last forever - they stand in the mud and sing - the innocent poverty of communism - for ice cream is Zmrzlina – to sing a concert in a bar - folk gods hiding - a devil who children – the milky sweet lullaby

Ainsley Morse

Consent

Lactation Consultant - incidentally the name of my mother - consistently to master - in the proverbial village - a proper feed - my mute, useless nipples – Foreplay! - blue-green-tinged plastic tubes - into a real cow - Consent? Your body - a cute nonsense word

Mandy-Suzanne Wong

Turning Tables: Kathryn Eddy and “The Problematic Nature of Flatness”

glaze of evidence - deadened stomachs - hens henning - where you would normally find - human sovereignty - unsettled gallery - kill counter - the very concept - musique concrète

Ray Osborn

Pyracantha Berries

lattices in her distance – lifetime made from – the hem of self – open mouthed tandem – writhe in my wait – tropic memory – in ache for comrade gnawings – it is the dire – but the spell

Avi Garelick

Spitting It Up

milk brings forth butter - one who spits - no genderless pronouns - somewhere at the root – the regifting of milk – letters covered in honey – one who forsakes – Torah like oxen – value to each