Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure on my stoop. Smiling song lyrics shape maple lips. Scents of softening viandas, simmering sofrito water, & browning meat, circle me & push my rhythm closer & closer. Titi Linda lives as I forget she...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure Swallow the sun with me and the heat between your ribcage will settle betwixt strewn apart thigh as you shudder, eyes flutter indecently. I stifle the urge to whip out a polaroid to capture the sharp inhale you take...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure Raquel took a seat and pulled a hot pink flask from her purse. She sipped, then grimaced and surveyed the women around the table. The troupe was meeting at Anne’s house to plan out their act for the 5th annual REO Town...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure painful childhood of neglect, abandonment, stealing the last remnant of my Indianness, alcohol woman breezed back to the rez twenty-two winters later without warning, dropping by my trailer gifting me with expensive...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure This body needs a biscuit Every now and then The kind that sits in Tongue memory The kind of biscuit Rolled by a Black woman Whose hands healed Peppermint candy unraveling loudly Retrieved from a black purse Snap shut...
