Hybrid

then you did the unthinkable. ran from the burning pyre, shed off your old self like a snake. vowed to want to live again, and never flirt with hell. wiggled yourself into spaces small enough to swallow you. your back then folded, bowed, but still a bone. executed mental somersaults, threw yourself like bird after …

Form, fragments, and new motherhood in Jazmina Barrera’s Linea Nigra These days pour out like water through a sieve and This is how many of my sentences end these days: interrupted, still searching for the closure of punctuation. My journal and the Notes app on my phone are littered with fragments like this. Some days …

Benjamin Bellas currently lives in Miami, Florida. His work is forthcoming or has been featured in Hunger Mountain, Jet Fuel Review, The Broadkill Review, The Pinch, Fives (A Companion to Denver Quarterly), Qu Literary Magazine, Cadillac Cicatrix, and Drain Magazine, amongst others.

Sir Francis Drake great great ringing of alarm bells firing of cannons a singed odor in the courtyard of English attack dogs as they came the windows of shameful tortures red-hot irons merchant of terror the business of pirates that hidden village with so lucrative a fortune mad ideas over three hundred years of that …

Hanggang Sa Muli We see our dead everywhere. A butterfly, a bat—Lola? Dad? Is that you? Just today, I saw my father in the long finger of an okra, overgrown past peak deliciousness. It waggled at me— naku, not even good for deep-frying!— and reminded: tingnan mo! Always look close at your garden, at your …

You can read/view Michelle Peñaloza’s poems and collages in BR’s Issue 86 here. I. I started making collages at the start of this year, the day after I learned the pregnancy, we’d been trying to make happen for two years, was not viable. The day I waited for a way to help my body—what is …

Epistolary Experiment Conducted August 2018 GB: In the summer of 2018, I invited Jennifer S. Cheng to engage in a hybrid, epistolary experiment: During the span of two weeks—while I was in Vermont for a conference and she was at her home in the Bay Area—we would create something every day, with each other as …

A full-throated rustling at each long window. Landline with static. My partner tells me that our connection makes me sound faint or fuzzy and often doesn’t answer the phone when I try. I could be engulfed by the forest, slowly overtaken by unnamed insects I hear but not see, who I don’t know the names …

Emdash 高璐璐 is a neurodivergent poet, writer, educator, host and daughter of Chinese immigrants. Her poems are published in sine theta, poetry.onl, Kissing Dynamite, The Good Life Review and Queer Rain. Her prose lives in Mochi Magazine, Mashable, The Rumpus, Split Magazine and YLWRNGR. She has performed at The San Diego Art Institute, Historic Filipinotown LA …

7–Orchid air roots can reach throughout a room, like fingers twining other hands for sun. 16–Why don’t we keep glass Christmas balls in bowls in summer, to refine the heat. 37–Cliffs know how to build desert burrows like hollow gourds. 2—Once people stored drinking gloves in a drawer in their cars. 31—Clothing was two things, …