Issue II features Jess Janz

Excerpt from The Entire Table by Jess Janz I want the whole feast, the entire table. I want to live from the wildness that clamors in my chest. I want to burn down the house that was built for me. I want to say exactly what I mean. I want it all, I want it … Continue reading Issue II features Jess Janz →

Issue II features Ginger Harris

Excerpt from Don't Shoot The Messenger by Ginger Harris We sink into silk every day in paradise. Bathe in lushness and praise our own soft hands, nurture ourselves in perpetuity. For those strayed into the jaws of this cause I will plant a drop of your blood in the ground– give your … Continue reading Issue II features Ginger Harris →

Issue II features Cassie Fielding

Excerpt from Dream Tea by Cassie Fielding Trip on over hieroglyphs to temple divide, golden apple-seeded ratio of an empire's prehistory. Wake in savasana sleep, buoyant in satin, fan blown Persian petals, and carve a new name in granite. Humble feast of my magick has made lotus of your necklace shell mind – … Continue reading Issue II features Cassie Fielding →

Watch it burn – Syl

Watch it burnShe said to himAnd with thatThey watched the bridge go up in flamesVowing never to returnTheir love was at the point of no returnAnd they would let nothing keep them apart Written in response to Prompt Challenge #3 - Watch it burn

erosion by mbrazfieldm

my roots never grewi stayed for a little whilethen climbed on the first windthat blew through this soul of sandmy grains turned pale graytumbling through this earthen hourglassalone in the company of drovesof other discarded lonely vagabondsfrom what i gatheredlove had stopped rooting at the duneswhen i finally got there Written in response to … Continue reading erosion by mbrazfieldm →

(Let me in! Let me out!) – may hem

Would that places and timehave belongings,I would be wherever I longBut only people draw linesto define in or outWith a verb to invertroles and blameIn belonging, we transferthe subject to the objectand turn choiceto a passive plea Written in response to Prompt Challenge #1

Issue II features Dee Li

Eureka 13,000 years ago, a mother held Her child on her hip as it pressed Small fingers on firelit walls, Pressed until they yielded, until They were remade in its image In the last gulping bowels of tree Kind, a man stares down a scope At a stumbling doe and it is holy, This … Continue reading Issue II features Dee Li →

Issue II features Sarah E. Hoffman

Send a message to the underworld, Through the bruises on my thigh Declare your ownership, stolen from the gods, Through the bruises on my thigh Walk through me to-ward … Continue reading Issue II features Sarah E. Hoffman →

Issue II released

Issue II: hermes (the kaleidoscope) is now available to download! The digital download is completely free but if you wish to donate/pay as you feel, you can do so through the Donate tab. Our summer issue celebrates the abstract, surrealism and the multi-faceted with many contributors reflecting upon life and death. Thank you to our … Continue reading Issue II released →

Issue II: Nick Reeves

Below is an excerpt from a piece of prose by Nick Reeves in Issue II: hermes (the kaleidoscope) Photocopy of a snapshot in the mirror frame by Nick Reeves She told me more than once that I reminded her of her first lover, a youth named Stewart who, shortly after they had met, plummeted from … Continue reading Issue II: Nick Reeves →