Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure No angels told my mother I was coming. I weighed heavy on her mind nine months as she worked with the other Jamaican women at Batchelor Peas in Huntingdon, on the canning factory floor until the day before I was born....
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure Weary from a whole DJ set, i welcome one more song. i mean, how can i blame this body for blooming. i mean, it’s tradition, really. i mean, how can i explain this unconditional lover the metronome taps its version of...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure for Camilla Donghi While others try to keep alive their livers & their tongues, we happily instead let sweets & alcohol rot ours; while others try to keep unsoiled their fingers & their lungs, we...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure Rocking a full face of makeup to eat dinner with the girls I’ve known since they each had braces. The lighting is bad. We’re at Red Lobster or Friday’s or Carrabba’s, but Ulta had a sale. My basket overflowing with...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure a mother moans the night is warm moonlight shadows the roses a familiar lean into bleak what has she lost? a son? scarce as any summer night’s answer the emptying of his bedroom is proof:...
