down by hana wilde when you were a seal, your belly reflected in the water, a harvest moon skin split with silver, you moved quietly...

Diana and Actaeon by thea hatton How likely the story the stink of you rustling the leaves of the bush where you lay hidden...

Commute from the Latin commutare, "to change altogether" by martin kennedy yates The sky this morning is all the elements dissolved in...

III. II. I. by lucy holmes Let her water rise up to meet me That godly tide - dividing- the land at the shore Rising, polarising, Calling...

BREAKWATER by rachel jeffcoat My son tells me that tomorrow, in class, they are building tiny sea defences. They stop the land from being...

To Adonis by ernest kearney Have the crimson anemones flowered yet? Under the sun scorched earth the sea did take you. Alone. And yet...

sonnet i by karla hirsch blue, I mean sky, I mean heat. let’s expand like yellow parasols, sun-hungry. Build hives around the barbecue,...

Narcissus Retold by aoibh anna myth-making on my bedroom floor They told her she would live a long life if only she never discovered...

Daphne, Always Running by adeline loh Why try to outrun a god? I never run out of reasons to keep going, forget how much money it costs...

When I Became Kraken by siobhan kilsby when I became Kraken, it was for this reason I had not not thought of drowning in six months...

Miles from October, there is heat by maggie fulmer – dandelions in the backyard, ice on my tongue. I glance at the clock on the stove,...

In a strawberry field, you looked like someone I never knew by malo gledhill Don’t pay attention to the sirens, the police tend to be...

I ask my coworker what kind of animal I would be and she says "deer" by clara bush vadala without thinking—wretched, the deer I should...

Diagnosis in Oblique by kristiana reed A threshold has been met / the nurse / a warm voice / apology thick in throat / states a threshold...

Fox by philip miller The fox returned. Slipping between, brushy in the lane, slight as a lean comma, eyes aglint like wounds and liquid....

Arachne's guide to offending a goddess by thea hatton You start by learning no divine inspiration no blessings just callus-forming on...

Tree grafting notes by ag After the tools have been sterilized, the patch cut and grafted, it sleeps for a year: a spring, summer, fall...

WHAT THE KING'S SON KNOWS OF ROYALTY by ian c. williams When Absalom hung by his hair in the twisted limbs of the deepwoods— too many...

Barnacle by bex hainsworth Mid-January, and we can’t afford to put the heating on. As soon as I sit down, you drift along the cold...

when bad nights unfurl to form a crosswalk into a day alive with butterflies by hassan a. usman all this time we were seated for our own...