Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 3, Mighty Micros Beverley Sylvester 11/14/25 Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 3, Mighty Micros Beverley Sylvester 11/14/25

(Maternity) Leave

There is a stretch of the most precious time in the mornings, after your husband has gone to work, when the baby wakes up and you feed her and she falls asleep on your chest, her small arms holding your torso, their full length barely reaching the edges of your back.

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Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 3, Mighty Micros Filiz Fish 11/1/25 Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 3, Mighty Micros Filiz Fish 11/1/25

Laws of Motion

once, you said everything keeps moving until something stops it / so I wonder if it was time that slowed us / or the quiet between what we meant and what we said

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Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 Alex M. Frankel 8/1/25 Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 Alex M. Frankel 8/1/25

Please, God, in the Event of Dictatorship

Allow me to run from America and, if it be Your will, / Have Germans roll out their welcome mats / As America opened her arms to my parents / When they escaped Berlin in the ’30s.

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Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 Maya Williams 8/1/25 Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 Maya Williams 8/1/25

My Therapist Shows Me How to Write in the Affirmative or An Alternative to Writing “Don’t Kill Yourself”

stay kin stay kin stay kin stay kin / stay kinder to myself stay kinder to myself stay kind stay alive / I want to stay kind I want to stay alive I want to stay kind I want to stay alive I want to / stay alive stay kind stay be alive be kinder to myself be kinder to myself

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Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 Christina Hauck 8/1/25 Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 Christina Hauck 8/1/25

Sweet

I cut my hair short as a boy’s and lounged / by the river with other naked women, / all of us laughing and talking with hands
and with mouths, wading in and out of the water, // shining.

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Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 Baani Minhas 8/1/25 Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 Baani Minhas 8/1/25

She Replants

The family tree is gnarled and warped. Witch’s bony / knuckles and fingers sprouting from a dark corner of the earth. / It hangs like a curse and blights the lonely apple that grows, / hiding. A thin branch reluctantly bows to its weight.

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Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 A. Z. Foreman 8/1/25 Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 A. Z. Foreman 8/1/25

Moon (as translated from the Hebrew of Nathan Alterman)

Even an old landscape has a moment of its birth. / The strange, impregnable / And birdless skies. / Under your window, moonlit on the earth, / Your city bathes in cricket-cries.

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Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 Michael Rerick 8/1/25 Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 Michael Rerick 8/1/25

[a go phone shivers something important past outdoor seating pints and appetizers]

a go phone shivers something important past outdoor seating pints and appetizers / while the quiet trumpet flower springs bright jazz with a deep throated calico reach / like schoolyard entropy with a slow universe heat death blasted from lily depths

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Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 Jed Myers 8/1/25 Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 Jed Myers 8/1/25

Still Wondering if You Made It

I’ve been able to miss you, without knowing / if your silence began at the grille of a truck / on a state route at dusk, or with a secret /  decision, or in sudden sickness I’d never learn        
the first thing about

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Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 Gordan Struić 8/1/25 Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 Gordan Struić 8/1/25

Shutdown.log

if (soul == None): / log("disconnection detected"); / backup("last known version of me");

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Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 Kristyn Snedden 8/1/25 Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 Kristyn Snedden 8/1/25

Parietal Operculum

Someone said your skin / is like velvet, which produced only a worn out / glimmer in the region, but when I touched // you I was myself full of ocean nettles, scalpels / and scythe, yellow and deep rose, forest green.

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Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 M. Ezra Zhang 8/1/25 Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 M. Ezra Zhang 8/1/25

Ars Poetica with Amateur Tarot

While my lover the tarot reader is comatose / in the bedroom after a night of talking to a god / I could not taste or touch, I scatter / the cards across the living / room like spores
into darkness.

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Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 i. a. peroni 8/1/25 Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 i. a. peroni 8/1/25

an “i want” poem about hilarious masochism 

to get sunburnt / on the scalp & the top of the shoulders / where it freckles after the second burn

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Nonfiction, Vol. 3 No. 2 Kim Bradley 8/1/25 Nonfiction, Vol. 3 No. 2 Kim Bradley 8/1/25

Holy Door

It was late August, not a tree or lick of shade to be seen; the sapping heat pulsed like a demon. We made our way in a straight line toward the recreation room, a dreary concrete block building, as if we, too, were prisoners.

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Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 Michael Roque 8/1/25 Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 Michael Roque 8/1/25

The Assembly Line Flow

Move and manufacture, / produce and progress / till guide, slide, shove / devolves to push, pull, / snap back on a fallen piece.

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Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 Van G. Garrett 8/1/25 Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 Van G. Garrett 8/1/25

Rex

In the summer / we swiped at the sun / laughed until our sides hurt / Brave as kids could be

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Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 Gordan Struić 8/1/25 Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 Gordan Struić 8/1/25

ACCESS_DENIED: heart.exe

Emotional drive: / fragmented.

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Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 Justin Lowe 8/1/25 Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 Justin Lowe 8/1/25

On the Death of a Queen

there is laughter like the ripples / when something dark breaks the water, / the laughter of children colliding
with the inert thigh of their mother / stood hollering

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Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 Roy Bentley 8/1/25 Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 Roy Bentley 8/1/25

Scooch

The lower I scooch, the better the reception. / Like the signal’s intensity is what it is except / around me.

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Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 Alex M. Frankel 8/1/25 Poetry, Vol. 3 No. 2 Alex M. Frankel 8/1/25

Pennypoker1919 to His Followers

Welcome to my playground sanctuary, friends/fans. This room is an extremely passionate and sensual place filled with mystery, desire, masculinity! I am permissive and open, live to be in front the webcam. Please play along and look at the bright side.

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