Spiritually iridescent terror
                   
What do you
look like you
look like nothing

                    
           — Gina Ablekop 
		

the difference between a tender 
impression and damaging ding 
is what my back rides up against.

                    
           — Kate Colby 
		

Through a careless renaissance with the wrong workman, you find yourself on a skewer, 
belittled by the insult, “hybrid female.”

                    
           — Sandy Florian 
		

Finally, what we know is a product of inference—so that the tokens and scraps of 
our experience become evidence, and really the only evidence, of the world beyond
our wills and conceptions.

                    
           — Melanie Hubbard 
		

Divided into rectangles: the exterior foreground, the shaded interior of the cattle car. 
Cast in plaster, stomachs made concave, the bodies of friends.


                    
           — Laura Kochman 
		

Don't look too close. Don't try to get back things you think you own.

                    
           — Éireann Lorsung 
		

Fair use of salvage mythology, Ethel set firmly between the shores of windows.

                    
           — Kate Shapira 
		

to resemble
    
            always places her floral breast toward the sun and
into the brightest light--the rest of her,
                                                        dead

                 
           — Jessica Smith