She wants to capture my voice,
but I never speak
to machines as I do to myself
or the few friends
who set me at ease
enough to forget myself
altogether. Should I die
before she hits record,
consider this a keepsake
or data, perhaps, I never
really understood
the purpose of this.
Glen Armstrong holds an MFA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and teaches writing at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. He edits a poetry journal called Cruel Garters and has a new chapbook titled Set List (Bitchin Kitsch,) and two more scheduled for 2015: In Stone and The Most Awkward Silence of All (both Cruel Garters Press.)
Jill Khoury
[posterior vitreous detachment]
Colony
Sonya Vatomsky
Mouth-Off (III)
The Serbo-Croatian language
uses the same word, čičak,
for burdock and Velcro
Kamden Hilliard
no baby but the poem is about you
Jessica Schouela
The Funeral
Chris Campanioni
Working Models
Sarah Ann Winn
Suburban Thaw
Rolling Acres Mall, Abandoned
Cynthia Conte
Number three star: Fast years
Diane Gage
Nanobiomaximum
Dear John (Cage)
John Lowther
a sonnet from 555
Rebecca Yates
What is "Emoji"?
Glen Armstrong
Archivist
Marta Ferguson
The Nether as Pizza Parlor
September Hinkle
Surviving Charlie