By Lorna Rose I listen to the sweaty silence, his throbbing presence as he stares at my developing chest. I learn to calculate the tides. Learn his breath smells like mints when he’s offering me up. Men’s gazes have teeth. Pivot and scan for the response he wants at the appropriate time. You’re pretty. Perform [...]
By Andrés Castro Dropped and broken, over and over, we were dropped broken here— the labeled Spic and Nigger boys, said from stupid mothers and ugly fathers, said marked by wire gashes, gunshots, and sex toys, waking to crying, screaming, lying, threats. We were dropped broken here. Who bothers to look inside the hand that’s helping? [...]
By Jane Snyder When I woke, Suzie was still asleep, lying on her stomach, her bottom a little raised. She looked cute, like a baby, and I tiptoed from our room with exaggerated care. If she teased me I’d use it against her. Suzie with her big butt in the air, I’d say. I went [...]
