Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure Love is about imagination. So I got on the number 1 train headed uptown, and announced to no one and everyone, that I, was available. I sashayed down the center of the car Shaking and shimming, Slithering down a pole...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure I scalp the orange in my palms, praying for serenity & wisdom. My thumb stained by dried, golden blood crying from under the peel. A subtle spray bounces to perfume my face. Its aroma reminds me of a woman I’m not...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure Nefertiti Asanti is a poet born and raised in the Bronx and a recipient of fellowships and residencies from the Watering Hole, Lambda...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure If a tree burns in California, does anybody hear it? Crackling and smoky, the flames licking the circumference of the trunk, sap oozing out like waxy blood. Once my father lit some logs in our fireplace during the...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure Krystle May Statler (she/her) is a multiracial poet living in Los Angeles. She is a co-founder/editor for every other, a Los Angeles-based collective that publishes literary broadsides by writers from around the...
Issue 21 / Spring 2020 He walks on the cuffs of his pants and the way he clears his country boy throat is an abomination. For someone that I suspect might be an on-the-sly sex worker, you’d think he’d be better at it. There were things I liked—maybe even...
