in the summer i swallow the sun …………and i cry when my bare feet touch the dirt in the costco i watch …………someone’s parents begin to separately plan their divorce in my dreams interdimensional …………parking lots are all the rage...
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Queering Bay Mal Verde: A Review of Vigil by Susie Taylor
Reviewed by Eva Crocker Susie Taylor, Vigil (Breakwater Books, 2025), 248 pp., $22.95. Susie Taylor’s award-winning collection of linked short stories, Vigil, is groundbreaking in its subtle queering of rural Newfoundland. The collection opens with a piece from the perspective of the fictional...
body misfiled (ongoing)
Kath Healing (they/them) is a queer, trans, disabled, neurodivergent poet based on the unceded lands of the lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking peoples (Victoria, BC). Their work explores archives of body, memory, and survival through hybrid forms. Winner of the 2025 Victoria Writers’ Society Poetry Contest...
Encountering a Vertical Limit
Let us begin with an introduction to rock: a tap will tell you if it’s full or hollow. And enter: and let yourself lay open, stiller than a spinning top. Time attaches us to luminous things— …………….clamber, climbing, finding …………….you...
Love You Back
He thought forever would be like time going missing driving at night, but it turns out it’s more like a snow globe. It’s shaken and swirling, too much of a whiteout to follow the highway lines of time. He does know the start. It was static then, and maybe it will be again in the end. But since his...
Two Boys Kiss
Two As in a pair. As in a set. As in a couple. As in dalawa. As in double. As in two of cups. As in division into halves. As in when our two hands touch in the city bus in daylight it makes two hands turn into ten fingers and I think that means something. As in we can make more out of nothing. As...