Jazz Marie Kaur

"San Francisco Fountain (detail), Ruth Asawa" © Steve Portigal “What the hell do you think you’re doing?” The annoyed, vaguely threatening inquiry came as a surprise, like a rush of air where there had just been a vacuum, like blindness from light too bright to see through. What was I doing? I really didn’t know. There was only this very moment and even the moment just before this one didn’t seem to exist. Did not exist. I didn’t know what the hell I was doing. The challenge seemed to have...

"Kitchen Wall" © Aydin Can Hahne Marvin is getting ready to serve dinner for him and his brothers’ weekly Taco Tuesday night. As always, he makes sure to put a tablecloth down on the dining table first, as one of his younger brothers always manages to make a mess with the salsa. He then sets down a fork, knife, and plate in front of every chair, before grabbing a large carcass from out of the oven. The skeletal structure of the animal immediately appears human, except for the addition of a...

"Vines on Fence" © Lee Summers ABOUT: Lee Summers [he/him] is a queer, multi-racial, neurodivergent emerging writer residing in Southeastern Virginia. He has work published or forthcoming in Prosetrics, Bad Clown Books, PHIL LIT, The Faoileánach Journal, and elsewhere. When not writing poetry, you can find him on a trail or at the beach with his husband. EDITOR'S SONG PAIRING: Grow - RUBII