Winter Solstice 2020

Poetry

Bailey Cohen-Vera

Diamond Forde

Jessica Lawson

Jocelyn Li

Julia Laxer

Lark Omura

Art

A Visual Poem by KT Herr

Fiction

Tight Little Vocal Cords: a novel excerpt by Loie Rawding

Essays

Ritual for Release 2020 by Courtney Morgan

Solstice Soliloquies—Notes from the Editors

Oath of Softest–Poems by Jessica Lawson

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Oath of Softest

He makes his money his woman (in the office to steel (but the resolution (will not be televised,
(take this, then (our oath of softest.

A fly by Might operation might operate (on your granny, her (hip hip (hopping below the belt
(and he’s ready to give her (whatever care he can grab (in between conference calls, (while the
full ass of social media (butt dials their representatives (leaving an oath of softest (in the empty
art of the dialtone (when the voicemail box is full.Continue Reading