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20 PEOPLE HIRED TO HUG by the Gao Brothers
Further Reading
SIGHING DAMNS THE WORLD by Jerrod Bohn
In tree blown slippers’ nightingale gauze she remembers awake a squawk murder of angels zither less crave of field crows Grafts feathers fallen (one two other) some sewn into her hair sleeves woven limb to laurel leaves plunking gut strings above her head Want: haloes of glass beads the kind drunk girls noosen their necks […]
The Trembling Nasties
by William Luvaas
I am told I was a happy, mischievous kid who smeared peanut butter on walls. Insatiably curious, I would sit down next to strangers on buses and start up conversations. I have heard that I liked to make people laugh. I don’t remember any of this.
Six Poems by Anna Matysiak
from Inbred Machines: (The Difference and the Repetition), translated from the Polish by Peter Burzyński
the queen wasp / opens her first pair of arms. / she convulses in the right chamber like / how nails sanctify a board.
