Lizard Brain how embarrassing of you / to have so many goddamn mouths / each one full / of unclaimed paper receipts / spilling out of...

Charm in Its Southern Variety / Have You Ever Felt So Detached From Your Own Upbringing You Could Sail Away, A Non-Entity Slackening Like...

"a preguntarnos qué hacíamos en la escuela / que hacíamos en las playas, de qué está / hecha nuestra agua..."

"A fire eater performed his tricks on Hollywood Blvd by the entrance to the 101 Freeway."

To conclude their experience interning for The Southeast Review, Diana Calderón, Arissa Cushnie, and Grant Wendt searched the archives...

At their first meeting, my first boyfriend asks my father "what was prison like?" When my boyfriend touches me, I feel the wings of my...

Aubade with Wind Chimes and Hesitation Head tucked between the pillow and its ragged blue case, the dog snores more softly now. We fell...

Flamingos As the nurses pushed your bed into the OR, you extended your arms toward us, & we promised we’d take you to see the flamingos...

A Dark Bird There is no right answer to how a young girl finds a home. Sometimes, she marvels at the swift larks or names the crows after...

The Only Confession I did something wrong I carved a name into a tree and it wasn’t even mine the name belonged to someone I used to love...

The Sun, the Ship the sun shone as it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green water, and the expensive delicate ship that...

Two Poets Email on a Sunday Afternoon I used to think what happened to me / massive creature & putrid / pinned to the floor, ripped open,...

Teething Borders “Borders are set up to define the places that are safe and unsafe, to distinguish us from them. A border is a dividing...

Sexting You say words work when hands can’t reach. So I try, send you messages that set a scene: the tool shed out back, windows steamed,...

The Devil's Book There’s no fun in witchery these days. Sure, I shudder cops with invisible needles, but magic’s no calling. I simply...

Fifty He said if you keep punishing yourself like this you’ll be old by the time you’re fifty and right there in the instant of him...

Hells Bells Wasn’t allowed to listen to secular music. Mother said it was the devil’s music. Church said Satan was made of music, glory...

The Tools We Used 1 My father gripping the lawnmower's handle on Saturdays to pummel twigs was how we measured time. His pulse beating in...

Ballistics In a ballistics lab in Maryland three artists known as The Propeller Group aimed assault rifles at each other and fired them...

Danez Smith's poem "bloodnectar" was originally published in The Southeast Review 34.2. bloodnectar brother our blood intersects in...