Mother Mary does not come to me as a blue-veiled queen with a serpent underfoot.

I know guys like you— Men who cut with glares instead of knives. Boys who brood to look refined. Sons who get high off cool-white lies, trustworthiness empty in hindsight. You think this is a Suessy-rhyme? You slam mouths with ancient books, and beat new perspectives with old ones passed down from white beards to black mustaches, and closed minds to open ones, which will shut with time. But most of all, you detest the whispering wisdom of my sisters. You prefer k

I drive with shoulders pulled tight, like it will hel me fit on streets

I planted words like seeds beneath my driveway in the construction trench that felt like a metaphor for all the ways I was torn open.

Yan Sison is a poet based on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Some of his works were published in Pearls, a creative writing anthology.

I will say that I have touched her hands and let them go. I am filled with this lingering and fading.

i wandered in and around and up and down dead beat streets and watched as cleaners washed away the tackle with the tide

Far, far away in a state known as Florida a teacher, curly hair coiffed

i’ve bought a thousand massage boards trying to break the knots that turn my neck into stiffened old oak boards.

it is lunchtime & the countertops are green with stains like continents,

I used to dream I was standing on a little hill by my childhood home next to my mother who was teaching me to fly

For years, I have lived in a cage

Ilona Lowe is an author and visual artist. She is a 23 year old immigrant living in the UK. Her work has been featured in Letters From Milena Magazine, and Dirty Dykes Magazine. She has been shortlisted for the ‘Then and Now’ TogetherInTheUk poetry prize.

Yan Sison is a poet based on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Some of his works were published in Pearls, a creative writing anthology.

Kalvin M. Madsen is a fiction writer and poet living in Pasadena CA, and is the EIC of Low Hanging Fruit. His short story collection Hello, Receiver was released in 2019, and his upcoming poetry collection “Reasoning Machine” is set to release later this year.

Ilona Lowe is an author and visual artist. She is a 23 year old immigrant living in the UK. Her work has been featured in Letters From Milena Magazine, and Dirty Dykes Magazine. She has been shortlisted for the ‘Then and Now’ TogetherInTheUk poetry prize.

Ilona Lowe is an author and visual artist. She is a 23 year old immigrant living in the UK. Her work has been featured in Letters From Milena Magazine, and Dirty Dykes Magazine.

The author, Chukwuka Chinakwe is a gifted poet and philosopher, with a large collection of anthologies to his name. He trained as an architect bagging a masters degree from the federal university of technology, Akure, Ondo State in Nigeria.

Yan Sison is a poet based on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Some of his works were published in Pearls, a creative writing anthology.

Kalvin M. Madsen is a fiction writer and poet living in Pasadena CA, and is the EIC of Low Hanging Fruit. His short story collection Hello, Receiver was released in 2019, and his upcoming poetry collection “Reasoning Machine” is set to release later this year.