Rearing Gaze
Michael Rex Sweet hairy head top pull out of you into your world And looks at you, And looks like you. Children are always a blessing… And if not to you mama Then to themselves because life simply is without asking...
Category: Poetry 4
warrior princess
Rhea Manley you have been reading some things and you are pretty sure you are a feminist. one day you wake up, and shakespearecannot be about juliet anymore.your new tragic heroine is ophelia, or cleopatrayou could...
England, 2013
Kaleb D’Aguilar After a ping we meet below eight by the chapel where white boys sing. Driving Home for Christmassharing memories of the landthe long summersand beautiful springflowers. We lie on...
A Conversation Named For Dragons
Kwasi Shade Love was a feeling mischief when you exit; while you talked morse code and I sod to take it “Give me your hands;” I needed therapy I lacked your languid modesty.Drunken monasteries bellowed mefawn in the...
Karst Cruising
J.A. VIII Green limestone caves, Concealed cruising for runaway gays. After busy days, Driving past fields of phallic sugar cane. Luminous under moonlight, Glistening blue chests under pearled...
Cruising for a Bruising
Adam Patterson Sailors He sat upon the rolling deck Half a world away from home […] And watched...
Anything But Gay
Juleus Ghunta Back then, boys were allowed to be anything but gay. We lost our virginity before we learned to read. When I was 8, I watched older cousins force two 5–year–olds to do it. They opened the girl’s...
Back Words
Topher Allen At the age of 14, Dwayne ‘Gully Queen’ Jones was forced out of his family home by his father. In 2013, at 16, the young Jamaican was killed by a violent mob in Montego Bay, after he attended...
On the Puerto Rican summer 2019 revolution
Beatriz Llenín Figueroa nothing prepares us for joy not for burning, defiant joy whereas every single bludgeoned page of history and every single dispassionate page of ‘political theory’ prepares us for despair,...
