The the Crossroads go,
Eat apples and honey under swollen moon.
Listen to the drums,
Fumble in confused sexual liaison,
With your heart beat.
Stand. Ever so still, so all that moves you,
Are the Earth’s vibrations.
Continue reading ““To The Crossroads, Go” A Poem by HM Barrett”
Spider Magic
I have woven a web
around you, as if of gossamer
or blown bubble gum,
If anyone should force
their will upon you
it shall be strong
as steel though invisible
and fine to the touch.
Continue reading “Two Poems by Lucy Whitehead”
incantation no. 1 (banishing)
tangled up in the jewelry
dressed up in fabrics not worn
in years
all bought on credit &
paid off
in memory
(look at the curve of time –
the kitchen of the ship now spotless)
Continue reading ““emdemdaa (a hex in three parts)” and two hex images by Theodoros Chiotis”
A descent
in the price of dishwashers
A rise
in the striations
in the teeth
of child-skeletons
in a pit
beside the workhouse
There is so much we can learn
by how obediently a child
takes up this work
how its small jaw will unhinge
as it eats its way
out of the grave
Continue reading ““Leading Indicators” a poem by Joyelle McSweeney”
Sometimes you remove all those sheets,
rescue me- all wet, requiring
an emergency mouth to mouth.
Those are the days I give you all my pears,
all those things bothering me
and turning shiny with my blood.
Continue reading ““Hex” by Kushal Poddar”
Uses: banishing, protection, cursing/hexing, reversals, uncrossings, etc.
CAUTION: Do NOT apply on skin, it will burn!
Ingredients:
In A Kidney Dish
Seventeen months and six days ago,
with practice that could only be attached
to a pair of nitrile gloves,
they pulled apart generations of stratified tissue,
classified the human from the mammal
and presented the results on a stainless steel tray.
Imagine Gertrude Stein Sees
A Blue Nipple
the ten month old
pushes out, pulls in sucks
Does substitution satisfy*
no there there.
Continue reading “Imagine Gertrude Stein Sees by Mare Leonard”
Menstrual Blood
Jesus bled menstrual blood from
the wound that gave birth.
Out of his side, a gaping vulnerability,
inviting a finger, a mouth,
a community baptised.
Continue reading “Menstrual Blood by Gavin D’Costa”
Burn the Bloodstream
How can an odorless, yellow pill bring harm?
Every time you say no to food, you say yes to thin.
One felt good so she took another,
Eat clean, look lean.
not knowing two were an overdose.
Greasy fries or skinny thighs?
Continue reading “Burn the Bloodstream by Emma Lee”
Watching the World Fly By
The clock chimed seven …ding…ding…ding… and so on, until it let out one final loud ding that woke Forbes with a start. He shuffled slightly and managed to stretch his front and back legs just enough to prevent the cramp from setting in. He meowed happily as he heard the familiar whirring sound. His morning feed came shooting through the food hatch and plopped into his dish in a brown lumpy mush.
Continue reading “Watching The World Fly By by Melanie Davies”
Blood Magic
It was her first period for three months. Sitting on the lav with her knickers around her ankles and her knees falling apart, Mihaela saw the new slimness in her bare legs and grimaced. She thought of all the meals she’d missed since the promotion—the rushed breakfasts, the uneaten sandwiches, the insubstantial dinners—and how quickly it had become a matter of finding not the time but the inclination. Now she ate as irregularly and as little as she slept. No wonder her periods had stopped.
Continue reading “Blood Magic by Natasha C. Calder”
Effusion
Vincent Castiglia paints with his own blood.
Before you decide this is revolting,
you might want to try it yourself.
Don’t go to the extreme though:
The Last Time It Bled
the last time I bled was when I stood on glass
the worst time I bled was when they put the scissors in my vagina
Continue reading “The Last Time It Bled by Emma SzH”
DISEASES OF THE BLOOD
5q- syndrome, Aagenaes syndrome, Abdominal aortic aneurysm, Abetalipoproteinemia, Acatalasemia, Aceruloplasminemia, Acquired agranulocytosis, Acquired hemophilia […]
Continue reading “DISEASES OF THE BLOOD by Louis Armand”
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