A collection of the best poetry from the floating bridge press chapbook competition. for you.
Not just a spiral but a spiraled spiral.
Not just light but heat. The Edison bulb,
endangered for good reason and yet it’s our nature
to return to what’s familiar but bad for us.
Fuck the cold light of the LED, the green
fluorescent. You know you’d be the bat
In this version, she’s still not easy to love. In this version,
she stalks your pets, not your children. Her indifference
cuts you. Her unflinching yellow eyes. She’s no
shoeshine deer, no lapsed sheep. In this version, she ignores
Little Red Riding Hood, her talcumed grandmother.
I know it seems unfair, but have you seen what I look like? Teeth a flurry of cyclone, lips puckered like an asshole. I blinked to life in a puddle of excrement in skin its perfect match. Before you drank me in, I drowned a thousand siblings. Stamped my stump on their faces until their…
The green-banded broodsac is a behavior-altering flatworm that causes the snail to seek the light it usually avoids. The flatworm occupies the snail’s eye stalk and pulsates, mimicking the appearance of a caterpillar, so a nearby bird—the definitive host—might be tricked into eating the parasite. You prod me, shrinking, into the light. My tender eye…
