New Poems in the Nest by Kailah Figueroa
“Memory does not flinch at my interrogation. I can’t go back. I leave it there alone.”
from “Two Inlets in Winter”
“I make you laugh but not on purpose. I don’t want to be a funny woman anymore. I want to be a good man for you.” from “Our Names Are Not On the Mortgage but We Are Playing Homeowners For a Bit”
New Poems in the Nest
“to scar as a man might.”
from For Shelley and Stryker, who leapt from the head of Zeus By Sebastian Ellios
”I am thinking / of sound of the sound of / the clatter on the tile of / the tile on which I shattered.”
from Restlessness By Flora Field
New Poems in the Nest
“Walking away / is cheaper than packing again and renting another truck.”
by Monique Lanier
“believe me: I would do anything for / closeness. I watch / dawn rust against the horizon."
by Ben Togut
An Honorable Mention from our Fiction Contest
“Douglas continued to watch the man—so tall, hairless, and awkward—as he marveled at the cocktail shaker. He seemed both familiar and strange all at once.”
New Poems in the Nest
by Nick Soluri
“Let me /not get ahead of myself here, let me exchange / this moment, not out of embarrassment, but for / a memory.”
from “Praise Kink”
“and us, too, gathered in the corner / of the room praying to a kind of God ... no, / it was not prayer. There was no God."
from “Gothic Anatomy”
New Poems in the Nest
“I threw the wrong stone, / one I had wanted to keep.”
from “Dolsot”
By Hyun-Joo Kim
”Are jellyfish alive like I am alive? Is my mother? I swear to god my birth was made up.”
from “ON THE SUBJECT OF BEING ALIVE”
By Kourtney Jones