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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 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
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
Greed is Some Nutters Interpretation of Modernism

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
By JAKE Jun 18, 2022
Jazz Standard

Jazz Standard

walking down the railroad tracks behind the university smoking blue dream from a mountain dew can
By JAKE Jun 15, 2022

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