|||

The Shadow of the Ruins Looms above, Filling You with Determination

My sister
’s stonecrop
pales into its neighbor
’s trough, which means it
wants more than I
’ve given it, or enough
of what I have. Softrot
in the penny board
snuck from my Nissan.
My redding bike chain,
the row of brussels
mandibular in the ice-
box. Notes I keep
keeping. But the sunset
through a Nutribullet
looks alright, doesn
’t it. A prism of drinkable
once-mores, if we
lean just there.

J. Bailey Hutchinson

Twitter: @jbaileyhutch
Instagram: @ohbailey

Screenshot from Undertale by Toby Fox, 2015Screenshot from Undertale by Toby Fox, 2015

Up next Poem: "When the Telemarketer Calls" by William Fargason I tell them the person they’re trying to reach has died and this person of course is me and I’m much to my own dismay not dead but I lie to the Poem: "Going 30" by Jeremy Boyd you are always talking to someone even if they’re not present or a chrome-faced apparition assembled in your digital living room for the sake of
Latest posts Fear Eats the Soul: Reflections on a Masterpiece BRUISER ZINE 004: Saturn Returns by Ashley E Walters Tape World: O.K. Let's Rock with... Nirvana "Deconsecrators" by Terence Hannum "Pottery Fragment, early 21st century" by Jennifer Stark Review: Semibegun's Shitty Music on Tape and I Loved You a Lot "Octopus Facts" by Chris Heavener On the Importance of Infrastructure [Anything for a Weird Life] "The Executive Pool" by Steve Gergley "There is a Flame Called the Endless Night" by Juliette Sandoval "Gigantopedia" by Alexander Gradus Review: Smog Mother by John Wall Barger Spring Break Scene Report [Anything for a Weird Life] Two poems by Rob Kempton "Series in Which My Body is Not My Body" by Arden Stockdell-Giesler "Rows of Jaw Bones and Worn Down Teeth" by C. Morgenrede Two prose poems by Howie Good from "Founders' Day" by Arzhang Zafar Social Media and its Discontents [Anything for a Weird Life] "Jubilee" by Damon Hubbs "Nothing to See Here" by Bernard Reed Three poems by Kimberly Swendson In Praise of Phantomime [Anything for a Weird Life] Two stories by Robert John Miller Review: Greetings from Marquette: Music from Joe Pera Talks With You Season 2 by Skyway Man "Holiday" by Serena Devi Two poems by Jordan James Ranft How to Write a Song [Anything for a Weird Life] BRUISER ZINE 003: Founders' Day by Arzhang Zafar "March Madness" by Parker Wilson "At Hirschmann Hospital" by Jan E. Stanek