Embodying Language
"The body is a situation"
Melissa Mathewson
JAKE
Under the Thumb of Patriarchy
by Jill McCabe Johnson
Jill McCabe Johnson is the author of the poetry collections Revolutions We’d Hoped We’d Outgrown, and Diary of the One Swelling Sea. Recent works have appeared or are forthcoming in Slate, Fourth Genre, Waxwing, and The Southeast Review. Jill is editor in chief of
The Widowmaker Tried to Kill Me, But Failed Miserably
I didn’t know I’d had a heart attack until the morning after, once the stent was in and I’d had a good night’s sleep flat on my back with a weighted pillow on my upper thigh where the surgeon cut into my femoral artery.
the reason my insides are so swollen
CW: talk of muscles and bones, dysphoria
(safe house)
CW: fire/smoke, death, religious trauma
My Stuff Out in Tucson
“My Stuff Out in Tucson” is an eerie foreshadowing of the events that unfold in the writer’s forthcoming novel, Good-Bye, Lo Siento. You can follow him on Twitter at @lakemarkham for updates.
Chequered
by Colin James
I had washed my arse with the dish towel
because I have problems down there,
as opportunistic as modern schedules permit.
Late again, amid a forgotten torrent of bleach,
the towel remained on its rack.
Then in the afternoon suddenly remembering,
dangerously hurrying to precede my wife