by After Sueko

I see her bent from old age
the archipelago of her spine
aglow in zombified light of long dead stars.

by Zara Raab

Standing on the dock to greet the ships,
a woman middle-aged avoids my gaze,
as if she hadn’t known me almost all 

“These three poems appear in my recently finished third manuscript titled The Book of Flames. The poems continue a theme explored in my second book, The Minor Territories (Sundress Publications 2018).

by J.C. Todd

The Lunas have fallen
in Chiapas, households
emptied before daybreak,
slaughtered in a cavern

B.A. Van Sise is an author and photographic artist focused on the intersection between language and the visual image.