Embodying Language
"The body is a situation"
Melissa Mathewson
Poetry
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 reason my insides are so swollen
CW: talk of muscles and bones, dysphoria
(safe house)
CW: fire/smoke, death, religious trauma
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
Greed is Some Nutters Interpretation of Modernism
by Colin James
Cash is the drug of choice.
I'd hidden mine
under a large rock like in
the film Treasure Of The Sierre Madre
guarded by a growing monster.
What's in your symbolism?
Thought about such things afterwards.
Oh yeah I see what you mean,
kept hanging around like
Jazz Standard
walking down the railroad tracks
behind the university
smoking blue dream
from a mountain dew can