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Godzilla or Jesus Christ?
Megan Poe
“82 lines of iambic pantameter, written sometime between Byron’s lustful and fleeting affair with his half-sister, and his debilitating infatuation with a fellow choir boy, “Darkness” is the apocalypse poem that gores the beauty of the sublime. In the crooked symphony of Coleridge and Wordsworth’s aeolian lyres and dulcimers, “Darkness” is a heavy metal thrash.”
Wanting
Shana Graham
“Whispering: I planted you. Whispering, without disdain and even as I abstain: it’s good to want. Otherwise, buried wants are notorious for clawing their ways up from the mud pits of imagination, blue-lipped and raptor-eyed, ready for takedown.”
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Offer It Up
Mary Smith
“Her words deposit a worm inside me that grows until it
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Supplication in My Mother’s Yard
Leila Farjami
“The Shah’s gaze
glows from my grandmother’s mantle.
Later, in America, Father says:
We should have left sooner.”
American Sonnet for My Wife with a First Line Borrowed from Terrance Hayes
Justin Evans
“Today we’re going to get to work on the details,
lie down in the tall grass, and let the sun and sky
pass us overhead while we decide what animals
clouds look like”
Fugue Literary Journal
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Issue 65
Spring 2025
Featuring
Andy Butter, Teresa Carmody, Hollie Dugas, Noah Francis, Jen Frantz, Katie Garcia, Rasha Lama, Roy Lowenstein, Rebecca McKee, Brooke Middlebrook, Austin Miles, Olivia Muenz, Seth Peterson, Jessica Petrow-Cohen, Riley Richards, Anna Schachner, Robyn Schelenz, Melissa Strilecki, Thea Swanson, Harriet Truscott, Evan Wang, Jordan Williamson
Cover Art
Alana Solin