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Embodying Language

Embodying Language

"The body is a situation" Melissa Mathewson
By JAKE Jun 25, 2022
Under the Thumb of Patriarchy

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
By JAKE Jun 25, 2022
The Widowmaker Tried to Kill Me, But Failed Miserably

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.
By JAKE Jun 23, 2022
the reason my insides are so swollen

the reason my insides are so swollen

CW: talk of muscles and bones, dysphoria
By JAKE Jun 22, 2022
(safe house)

(safe house)

CW: fire/smoke, death, religious trauma
By JAKE Jun 22, 2022
My Stuff Out in Tucson

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.
By JAKE Jun 20, 2022
Chequered

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
By JAKE Jun 18, 2022

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