In my cloak
of incredulity I walk
down by the lake.
A red soul patch talks
with a toddler: Daddy will
fix it, but not right now.
A tattoed neck to her
runner bud: They were
rude! You call that
frank? A fighter trains
against an oak, kicking
its fissured bark.
Hilary Sideris is the author of Most Likely To Die (Poets Wear Prada 2014), poems in the voice of Keith Richards, and The Inclination To Make Waves, a book of four-letter-word poems (Big Wonderful 2016). She lives in Brooklyn and works for The City University of New York.
ISSUE THIRTEEN: Ye, Smelly Tsar
Ashanti Anderson
Goddam
Alan Elyshevitz
BLDG A, STE 4-22
Deidre O’Connor
Vision at a Dublin Airport Hotel
Claire Scott
The Morning After
Daniel Lasell
Above What's Under
Chey Davis
The Indictment
Hilary Sideris
Park
John Rodzvilla
Then Bring It Double (12 & 35)
Kathleen McClung
After the Election
Matthew W. Schmeer
Disturbing the Peace