radioactivemoat: The Spring 2017 issue of Deluge has finally arrived! It features work by:“I d
radioactivemoat: The Spring 2017 issue of Deluge has finally arrived! It features work by:“I designed this mystery to be heavy / grieving against earwigs / my lived-in routines / I’m desperate for a blow up in my life” -GABRIEL OJEDA-SAGUE “When the red cloud comes / hang yellow satin over the windows” -ZACHARY ANDERSON “One woe man’s terrorist / is another’s brofest tourist” -ROSE KNAPP “we need a better word / for our lucha / we need a Latinx” -WILLY PALOMO “I will look for you inside this / movie they show at school. A guide / to know my own body. I want / to understand when to balance & / when to paint over my footsteps left / on the walls. I want to be good to someone else / someday. To keep coming up.” -JULIA COHEN & ABBY HAGLER “sinking wet fingers in our early blood / cat-masked in our sleeping bags / next to the closet” -JESSIE JANESHEK “THIS IS THE SOUND OF HONEYSPIGOT, HONEYSPIGOT.” -ALEX GREGOR “Now the play is free to follow its own viral genius. It gathers in the bladder ducts. It strip-mines the genitals for diamonds and rare earth metals. Then it vaults, limb-by-limb, toward the heart and head.” -TOBY ALTMAN “sugar tongue lights at / the touch of enamel, remembering / the taste of a hornet / that never belong to me” -DANIELLE SUSI “A copper sun has replaced the slate / moon, the police tape blows in the / breeze, people walk around it, someone / has swept the sidewalk, the garden needs / weeding” -SHIRLEY JONES-LUKE “How thin must I keep my coverage in order to feel all this horror?” -ANNIE GRIZZLE “a florescent halo of data / floating through static / tangled into her hair / a terabyte, an sd card, a cloud / archives of text / overworked articles analyzing / the historical implications of deleted tweets” -EMILY GIGLER “But please, mister owl, / I beg you not / To make you a schema / Of me.” -MICHAEL SAJDAK “Dare I talk about the delirium involved in all-day drives?” -TYLER FLYNN DORHOLT “the highway, its inbuilt purpose, hearing static chew pop songs / on the radio like lumps of gum with dirt in them, gazing through / frames grayed by runny splays of what were once shiny flying bugs” -BEN GROSS “women burned / in lacerated sleep / along the wharves / burned / coitally / from her own / lung / & ribcage” -ISABEL BALÉE “Then, the clock inside her strikes” -SHARI CAPLAN “a zone of opinions wombs this birth object / my bot plays with it / the palmworld covers its mouth / birth object you will always be here, the palmworld says, / nested in a comment thread” -PETER COLE FRIEDMAN “what else is there / already used three breaths / all parts pleasure and fear / lots of folks with jobs / will produce this child of queers / who knows” -DAVY KNITTLE “The left thrives when people are unhappy. / The right wants everyone to have the same memories.” -ANDREW WEATHERHEAD “There are kinds of anger / you can’t avoid / being placed on you.” -CHARLIE D’EVE “Through the trees to endure the leveling march of industry / to pass on.” -JONATHAN LARSON READ ALL OF DELUGE 8 [HERE] -- source link