by Nathan Dennis | Jul 9, 2021
Ting Lin now it is summer and I still can’t eat much / on meds that make me shake for days / but i’m sprawled on your couch talking about tiny heartbreaks / willing some boy into obliteration / with the violence we used to claw at each other with / mouths...
by Nathan Dennis | Jul 9, 2021
Yash Seyedbagheri sedition, a casual slipper left for someone to slide on cleanup not included, why they say it’s just a demonstration, a statement, an ethos history shattered a flag bearing bars that split souls in half but it’s all casual a rowdy time, like...
by Nathan Dennis | Jul 9, 2021
Ceinwen Haydon Her claustrophobic room mulches secrets hidden beneath piles of frowsty knitwear. In zipped-up shoulder bags, under squashed hats: sexed memories lie smouldering there. Hidden beneath piles of frowsty knitwear torn letters, watermarked by wine...
by Nathan Dennis | Jul 9, 2021
Red Morgan Thou hast no hands to wipe away thy tears, Nor tongue to tell me who hath martyred thee. Titus Andronicus, III.i.107–108 I was passed from man to man. The crooked alley gave shelter to my ravishers, and they pried my legs open. Like moths trapped in...
by Nathan Dennis | Jul 9, 2021
— an ode to Krispy Kreme Donuts Paul Jones They have no ends, no centers. Angelically white, they rise. They expand before our eyes— light, lithe, gracefully bloated. Hillbilly bagels begin their float down the river of hot oil, wafting, as we are...
by Nathan Dennis | Jul 9, 2021
Terence Culleton There in a breakfast nook an old man peruses the paper. His wife peruses a book there in a breakfast nook. The header: CAUGHT IN A CAPER! The kettle discharges its vapor, as, there in a breakfast nook, an old man peruses the paper. He’s humming...
