Line the stem-butts even in your fist. Strip leaves, red as a sorrel stud, from stalk with thumb and first. With the three less nimble, squeeze leaf butts tight and if the codger hired off-the-books grabs a squeeze of your 18-year-old butt, ignore him. He’s bored and trying to get a rise. When […]
Category: ISSUE 1
Two Poems/ Emily O’Neill
are you in the weeds my scalp stained blue my muumuu / my nonsense affectations leftover from hippie school I’m bad / at New England I said so / we started with Cambridge little brick place / manageable navigable / no shitty job yet just / men asking me to disinherit […]
Two Poems/ Andrew Fazzini
rope bed lay me down on that old rope bed let my last and longest breath pass cradled in its warp and weft…
Questions for the Blue Collar Girl/ Jan Stinchcomb
How long have you had that coat? You still have clothes from high school? Why are you so self-deprecating? Why did you pass up the chance to go to Columbia? You mean your parents didn’t go to college? Your dad wears jeans to work? Does anybody in your family read? Why are you so stressed…
Stakes/ T. Rios
Our lives were horror stories, but we didn’t know it. We were the figures that stalked the nightmares of middle- and upper-middle-class parents. Some of us were the brave young black men first eaten by the monster; others, the virginal Final Girls pure enough to survive until the end. We were the big-haired bombshells who…
Solidarity in a Minute 46/ Mick Parsons
A short note about Solidarity in a Minute 46: Solidarity in a minute 46 grew out of my experiences as a labor activist and organizer. One of the things you discover very quickly when you’re trying to organize any workforce that historically has been unorganized — in my case, it was adjunct college instructors —…
RABBLE LIT 