Wolves out on Lavender Street

Wolves out on Lavender Street

  Champagne flutes sat used and muddled together in the sink. I stood, absent and barefoot, in the middle of smooth lamplight pooling across the kitchen floor. Things had dwindled down the past hour and only two dozen of Sasha and my families were left lingering...
Lynette’s War

Lynette’s War

Lynette’s War by Chella Courington https://www.agapanthuscollective.com.dream.website/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Lynettes-War.m4a Cousin Lynette says she’s tired from cleaning East Main houses of rich bitches. They don’t even shit like us, got toilet seats that float...
Invertebrate

Invertebrate

  My poem lengthens and contracts like an octopus, an invertebrate able to squeeze through small openings or fill large cavities.   My words inside their colorful bonnets swell and subside and trip over one another as I attempt to give them spine.   Like an...
JUNIOR

JUNIOR

today,   if you haven’t siphoned enough money into your real estate ventures, if you haven’t lured enough unsuspecting travelers to the motor lodge, if you haven’t done enough club drugs in Miami, if you haven’t rigged enough polls, if you...