Felicia Zamora Mujer Mala after Gloria Anzaldúa’s “Movimientos de rebeldía y las culturas que traicionan” after the May 3, 2022 Roe V. Wade Overturn Draft Leak Let’s be clear :: my womb … Read the rest
Luci Huhn Explaining to My Nephews How the Lake Turns Over I don’t like that they’re headed down two highways in opposite directions, away from me, their cars packed to the gills. … Read the rest
Katie Condon Who Here Has Heard of Ether? The meadow was like a child, hip-height and wild. The moths had no hope for holding onto any shadow, let alone their own, which … Read the rest
Elane Kim Transit I want more small kindnesses: glass stained in every direction, the windows stacked tall, a looping stop. Pick a side already: the sky or the sea. More rain or … Read the rest
Tamas Panitz Within a Secret Cloud Where to grow my orchid that will last for a thousand years … big decisions take many tiny minds– like Dracula in his den my persecutors … Read the rest
Jessica Guzman Post-Storm Assessment I spray X on my front door. I set the table, plastic on plastic, secured by stone. Two days after the hurricane, I grill freezer burned flanks … Read the rest
Conor Bracken Firstborn A day after the afterbirth’s been rubbed off your head (“like a coconut with injured sentience,” dark-haired and howling) we call you Everett, which means, we learn, brave as … Read the rest
Brett Hanley Texas-Louisiana Border Dive Bar This place is a metaphor for my dysthymia. If everything beautiful is born of wreck, then take me to the salvage yard of my affect. I … Read the rest
Guest Editor Tomás Q. Morín: A Special Feature "When West Branch invited me to be a guest editor, I told Josh I wanted the story if it was still free. This time, to my absolute delight, it was."
Jeanne Larsen Shadows Rippling on Bodhisattva Run 2 hundred thousand souls all still in a rush downstream from Hiroshima. Over the gorge, 5 bats wheel like the ones carved in a temple … Read the rest