Issue #28: Featuring Artwork by Malgorzata Jasinska
Making Eve

Making Eve

Spewed out of God's Sixth Day WIDE open post utero mouth, these zygotes, twin embryos, now grown, one buried inside the other, tumblefall into Eden. History's first birth defect. That story about the rib? History's first cover-up. Nixon, listen up. ...

Meet the Cover Artist: Malgorzata Jasinska

Meet the Cover Artist: Malgorzata Jasinska

Artist Statement Even as a little girl I was extremely introverted, creative, and imaginative. I'm a loner and people think I'm strange, but some of them appreciate my very subjective point of view. My name is Malgorzata Weronika Jasinska but I am a...

Book Review: Choice: True Stories edited by Karen Bender et al

Book Review: Choice: True Stories edited by Karen Bender et al

As most of us know, choice and reproductive rights are thorny and deeply personal topics. Scholars hypothesize, organizations advertise, politicians politicize, and stories of the past are used to paint ghastly and horrifying pictures. Whether it's ...

Featured Poet: Heather Schimel

Featured Poet: Heather Schimel

About Heather Schimel Heather Schimel graduated in 2005 with a degree in English from Oswego State University.  Since then, she has worked with doctors, law enforcement, and librarians.  In her work, she draws from topics such as father/dau...

Left Out

Left Out

I feel like a cop who's never off-duty. Last night was soccer pictures for my daughter's team.  I like these girls.  They all seem open, smiley, fun. My daughter has made a few friends.  She really likes one girl named Holly.  Ho...

Seven

Seven

"If there was someway to make me have never been age seven, I would have chosen it. It would have remained the number of the days in a week, or the number in a game of hopscotch  I would have thrown a pebble in and giddily hopped over, but ...

Brand New Jones

Brand New Jones

I've got a brand new jones and nobody even knows. It took some time but I had to admit it to myself. Before it was just a casual friendship, but it has blossomed into something more.

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inside the oth...

Making Eve
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I feel like a cop who's never off-duty.

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I've got a brand new jones and nobody even knows.

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She hiked
Split hooves
Split lip
Sun then moon then sun again

Crinkle eared
Smash faced cat
Had whimpered
Scampered away
Leaving a trail of fleas like bread crumbs

She ...

Agent Orange: Infancy
Peter Schwartz

the potato woman raises one eye
against the wrongful night, clutching
each alien root like a child
in her dirty skirts.

tonight's harvest is a mouth
not the whit...

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Meet the Cover Artist

Malgorzata Jasinska: Artist Statement

My curse is my gift. My nightmares, deep sensitivity, and emotional instability gives the best (and most uncomfortable) inspirations I could ever have. For me, art is passion - and visions are the mirror, which show my feelings and connect me with the rest of the world.   Read More...

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