A Woman Ruins Her Brother’s Christmas with His New Baby: A Poem by Candice Kelsey
She asked when she could come to the hospital to see her new niece
Ampydoo Cartoon #41
A cave doodle cartoon by Alan Michael Parker.
Manifestations: A Poem by Nathanael O’Reilly
I urge like a red lacquered / fingernail tapping a car / window, rat-tat-tat-ing, exclaiming / over there! faster than words
Adjacent
I tell people my brother is Los Angeles. A synecdoche or stand-in.
southern apocrypha smeared with duke’s mayonnaise, 1974: A Poem by Evelyn Berry
presume you bite a tomato the same way a man chomps an apple
What Remains: A Poem by Justin Permenter
These poems are not art / They are burial instructions
Ampydoo Cartoon #40
A meditation cartoon from Alan Michael Parker.
Unrooted
After the initial shock died down, they bombarded the internet with searches.
Almost Mothers
I have a constant companion—that version of myself who always thought she would be a mother.
The Desert’s Palm: A Poem by Taylor Stoneman
Here is what I know: silence has a sound.