Poetry
Rainmaker
by Olumide Manuel in Issue Twenty-One, January 2026
Rivers above and below, hear my voice. A ripple is how you speak. A pour is how you sing. I sing with both feet in vestigial bodies. By the stitch of the skies in me, I call you forth to this dance. In the epigenesis of silence, you forged the ways. The womb of the world was sedentary until you... Continue →
last psalm
by P. H. Low in Issue Twenty-One, January 2026
that you might be appeased by one such as me.
that, smug on your garnet altar,
you would unhinge your jaws
and drink wetly of my fear,
as a thousand mahogany harps
tremble beneath your altar
and ten thousand haunted skeletons
writhe your... Continue →
Queercoded Villanelle
by anaum sajanlal in Issue Twenty-One, January 2026
Build an altar to memory. Do not forget.
Dot ancestors all over, then kneel down and pray
to all the joys you do not think possible, yet.
And once you have swallowed the moon of your grief, get
up and run. Leave your eye-silver flowing. Though they
burn altars to... Continue →
A Party, A Party!
by Faith Allington in Issue Twenty-One, January 2026
You don’t choose vampires
and ghouls any more than they
choose you, but you find consolation
in each other, all the unloved
and objectified strata of myth.
Everybody wants to fear you
or fight you, they never approach
a werewolf to ask what you... Continue →
she brings me waves, she brings me wind
by Angel Leal in Issue Twenty, July 2025
i know her because her hair drags with homesick stars
& her hands are rough like a sailor's.
i know her loneliness looks like a fish struggling
in a man's... Continue →