Drag Night at the Imaginary Gay Bar | Patrick Kindig

The lights dim. The seatsfill with sequinedcowboys. Leatherdykescirculate, lean againstthe bar. Everyoneis here & everyone wants to be here. The drinksare strong & cheap& named thingslike desert rose& cactus blossom.They make the

Lean Against It | Robert Long Foreman 

I was walking into the building where I work. It’s on Illinois, off West Market. When I was halfway in, I heard a man shout, “He’s leaning against it!”  I don’t know

Two Poems | Margarita Cruz

On the First Day of the Year, I Try to Write You A Love Poem after We Drink Until 5 AM Kitchen floor cigarettes light into the New Year like birthday candles–the

Two Poems | Stephanie Choi

Open Wide small mouth with too many teeth                                                  

Self Portrait III | Andrew Mercer

at          some         point while       you       create yourself        you        tryto           

Windows: A Biography | Philip Arnold

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“It’s not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out the window.” —Wallace Stevens, Letters (1966) * * * “Where do you want the window?” Everett asks, standing on the unframed

Recorded | Moa Short

I hushed my child, remembered the fallen squirrel who wouldn’t cryand how we played hours of recorded wails until its mother heard, pulled it from our dried fruits, nuts, towels, capful of water, and fled.

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